EPISODE · May 27, 2021 · 42 MIN
Episode 5: A System of Weights & Measures
from The Song of Urania · host Joe Antognini
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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