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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Ossendrijver, Mathieu
Titre(s) : Babylonian mathematical astronomy [Texte électronique] : procedure texts / Mathieu Ossendrijver
Publication : New York, NY : Springer New York : Springer e-books, 2012
Description matérielle : 1 online resource
Collection : Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
Mathematics and Statistics (Springer-11649)
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Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy: Procedure Texts contains a new analysis of the
procedure texts of Babylonian mathematical astronomy. These cuneiform tablets, excavated
in Babylon and Uruk and dating from 350-50 BCE, contain computational instructions
that represent the earliest known form of mathematical astronomy of the ancient world.
The targeted readership includes assyriologists, historians of science, astronomers
and others with an interest in Babylonian astronomy. The book includes new translations
of all 108 available tablets that are based on a modern approach incorporating recent
insights from assyriology and translation science. All translations are accompanied
by commentaries and photographs of the tablets. The preceding chapters are devoted
to documentary, lexical, semantic, mathematical and astronomical aspects of the procedure
texts. Special attention is given to issues of mathematical representation, a topic
that had previously been largely ignored. Mathematical concepts are presented in a
didactic fashion, setting out from the most elementary ones (numbers and elementary
operations) to more complex ones (algorithms and computational systems). Chapters
devoted to the planets and the Moon contain updated and expanded reconstructions and
astronomical interpretations of the algorithms. The author intends to continue his
study of Babylonian mathematical astronomy with a new publication devoted to the Tabular
Texts-the end products of Babylonian mathematical astronomy, computed with algorithms
that are formulated in the present volume. The upcoming volume will contain new editions
and reconstructions of over 250 tabular texts and a new philological, astronomical,
and mathematical analysis of these texts
Sujet(s) : Astronomie assyro-babylonienne -- Mathématiques
Indice(s) Dewey :
510.9 (23e éd.) = Mathématiques - Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781461437826
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44664845f
Notice n° :
FRBNF44664845
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