The Song of Urania
Episode 5: A System of Weights & Measures
May 27, 2021 · 42 min · Season 1 · Episode 5 · 42.6 MB
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We look at how the Babylonians represented information in their astronomical tablets by examining their number system and the unit system. Then we dive into the Babylonian discovery of the Saros cycle, which was a deep regularity in the pattern of lunar eclipses.
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