What it tells us about the past: This round clay tablet, which is in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, is one of two dozen examples of ancient Babylonian mathematics ...

IN the past six years our knowledge of the ancient Babylonian mathematics has been vastly increased, thanks mainly to the labours of Dr. Neugebauer. The impulse to his researches seems to have come ...

The astronomers of Babylonia, scratching tiny marks in soft clay, used surprisingly sophisticated geometry to calculate the orbit of what they called the White Star -- the planet Jupiter. (Mathieu ...

Scientists have discovered the purpose of a famous 3,700-year old Babylonian clay tablet, revealing it is the world's oldest and most accurate trigonometric table, possibly used by ancient ...

The 3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet Plimpton 322 at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University in New York. The 3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet Plimpton 322 at the Rare Book and ...

UNSW Sydney scientists have discovered the purpose of a famous 3700-year old Babylonian clay tablet, revealing it is the world's oldest and most accurate trigonometric table, possibly used by ancient ...

A new interpretation into the nature of an ancient clay tablet known as Plimpton 322 claims that ancient Babylonians might have developed an advanced form of trigonometry — long before Greek ...

A tablet that dates back some 3700 years has been found to be the oldest example of applied geometry in the history of mathematics. Australian mathematician Dr. Daniel Mansfield from UNSW Science's ...

Even when a culture leaves behind extensive written records, it can be hard to understand their knowledge of technology and the natural world. Written records are often partial, and writers may have ...