Abstract
THIS is a work of great interest to students both of archaeology and of astronomy. The story of the many stages that were necessary before a full understanding was reached of the astronomical value of the tablets is as fascinating as a romance. The tablets that have come down to us were copies made in the eighth or seventh centuries B.C. of originals more than a thousand years earlier. We are fortunate in possessing a number of different copies of the originals; the calendar dates recorded in duplicate copies are not in perfect agreement; it is a familiar fact both in ancient and modern times that numbers are particularly liable to erroneous transcription. We can reasonably ascribe the few discordances that remain in the solution to this cause.
The Venus Tablets of Ammizaduga: a Solution of Babylonian Chronology by Means of the Venus Observations of the First Dynasty.
By Prof. S. Langdon Dr. J. K. Fotheringham. With Tables for Computation by Carl Schoch. Pp. vi + 109 + xvi. (London: Oxford University Press, 1928.) 35s. net.
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CROMMELIN, A. Babylonian Astronomy and Chronology. Nature 123, 902–903 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123902a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/123902a0
