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  1. An early system A-type scheme for Saturn from Babylon.John Steele & Teije de Jong - 2023 - Archive for History of Exact Sciences 77 (5):501-535.
    In this paper we publish three fragments of a cuneiform tablet that, when complete, contained the dates and zodiacal positions of Saturn’s synodic phenomena for roughly 60 years. The text is unique in containing comparisons of computed data with observations. Through an analysis of the preserved data we propose that the dates and positions were computed by an otherwise unknown two-zone System A-type scheme and show that the computed data in the tablet can be dated to the fourth century BC. (...)
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