January 29, 2016, 13:19 Washington, Jan 29 (PL) Seasoned connoisseurs of mathematics, the Babylonians were able to discover by the geometry of the existence of planets, one thousand five hundred years before its European neighbors, according to a study released today.
Analyzing some years writing tablets 350-50 a.n.e. It demonstrated the ability of these people from the old world to track celestial bodies. It was much earlier than previously thought, the authors note in the latest issue of the journal Science.
The method European fourteenth century was attributed until now, stands out in Article Mathieu Ossendrijver, an archaeologist at the University Humboldt in Berlin, studying a nearly intact clay tablets kept in the British Museum.
The pieces will show instructions for building a trapezoidal shape, he said. Reference is made to Jupiter said.
To reach these conclusions, the scientist compared different tablets and found that the calculation based on the surface of a trapezoid and their long and short sides, describing the motion of fifth planet from the sun along the ecliptic, the path the sun appears to trace through the stars.
The Babylonians developed mathematical and geometric abstract ideas about the connection between the movement and position time that are common to any physical or mathematical modern, said the scientist.
These contributions are even more complex than they did a few centuries after the Greeks and, in fact, reveal that Europeans Oxford XIV century Paris who were credited with developing these estimates, they were actually behind their counterparts in ancient Babylon, underlined
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