What and How Can We Learn from the Babylonian Astronomical Compendium MUL.APIN?

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Notes

¹H. Hunger and D. Pingree, ‘MUL.APIN, an Astronomical Compendium in Cuneiform’, Archiv für Orientforschung, Beiheft 24 (1989, Horn).

²Lis Brack-Bernsen and Hermann Hunger, ‘TU 11, a Collection of Rules for the Prediction of Lunar Phases and of Month Lengths’, SCIAMVS, 3 (2002): 3–90,

³See Jöran Friberg, Hermann Hunger and Farouk Al-Rawi ‘Seed and Reeds’, Baghdader Mitteilungen, 21 (1990): 483–557 (p. 499). Or see Lis Brack-Bernsen: ‘The days “in excess” from MUL.APIN. On the “first intercalation” and “waterclock” schemes from MUL.APIN’, Centaurus, 47 (2005): 1–29 (p. 9).

⁴Eleanor Robson, Mesopotamian Mathematics, 2100-1600 BC, Technical Constants in Bureaucracy and Education (Oxford, 1999), pp. 1–337 (34–5).