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Title:
Babylonian Observational Astronomy
Authors:
Sachs, A.
Publication:
Philosophical Transactions for the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Volume 276, Issue 1257, pp. 43-50
Publication Date:
05/1974
Origin:
JSTOR
DOI:
10.1098/rsta.1974.0008
Bibliographic Code:
1974RSPTA.276...43S

Abstract

The cuneiform texts from ancient Assyria and Babylonia that are preserved offer direct evidence for systematic astronomical observation in two widely separated periods. From the first half of the second millennium B.C., later tradition has transmitted the dates of successive Venus appearances and disappearances in the reign of a king of the First Dynasty of Babylon. From the middle of the eighth century B.C. to the middle of the first century B.C. are preserved a large number of fragments of astronomical diaries attesting extensive daily observations of naked-eye astronomical phenomena.
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