Episode 5: A System of Weights & Measures
- Author
- Joe Antognini
- Published
- Thu 27 May 2021
- Episode Link
- https://songofurania.com/episodes/005
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.
