The development and transmission of 248-day schemes for lunar motion in Ancient astronomy

DOI10.1007/BF00535977MaRDI QIDQ794633zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander Jones

Publication date 1983

Published in Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00535977

zbMATH Keywords

approximate lunar ephemeriszigzag function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17) History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of astronomy and astrophysics (85-03)

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