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Babylonian Astronomy

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Babylonian Ephemerides of the Seleucid Period for the Motion of the Sun, the Moon, and the Planets. Edited by O. Neugebauer. Vol. 1: Introduction, The Moon. Pp. xvi + 278. Vol. 2: The Planets. Indices. Pp. xii + 279–512. Vol.3: Plates. Pp. v + 255. (London: Percy Lund Humphries and Co., Ltd. Published for the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.) 105s. the set.

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SLOLEY, R. Babylonian Astronomy. Nature 176, 569–570 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/176569a0

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