[permalink] [id link]
The oldest surviving planetary astronomical text is the Babylonian Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa, a 7th century BC copy of a list of observations of the motions of the planet Venus, that probably dates as early as the second millennium BC.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
oldest and surviving
This is also the oldest surviving non-Roman Catholic church in the New World.
* 1537 – The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
On Agamemnon's return from Troy he was murdered ( according to the fullest version of the oldest surviving account, Odyssey 11. 409 – 11 ) by Aegisthus, the lover of his wife Clytemnestra.
Salamis holds a prominent place in The Persians, his oldest surviving play, which was performed in 472 BC and won first prize at the Dionysia.
The Ásatrú Alliance is the oldest surviving organization and is headed by Valgard Murray.
The oldest surviving manuscripts of the Athanasian Creed date from the late 8th century.
The oldest part of the present semi-ruin constitutes one of the earliest surviving stone castles in mainland Scotland.
Although large Chinese bridges of wooden construction existed at the time of the Warring States, the oldest surviving stone bridge in China is the Zhaozhou Bridge, built from 595 to 605 AD during the Sui Dynasty.
The world's oldest surviving bowling green is the Southampton Old Bowling Green, which was first used in 1299.
The oldest surviving manuscripts of Isaiah are two scrolls found among the Dead Sea Scrolls: dating from about a century before the time of Jesus, they are substantially identical with the Masoretic version which forms the basis of most modern English-language versions of the book.
Map of Constantinople ( 1422 ) by Florentine cartographer Cristoforo Buondelmonti is the oldest surviving map of the city, and the only one that predates the Turkish conquest of the city in 1453
The Church of Saint Simeon Stylites in Aleppo, Syria is considered to be one of the oldest surviving church buildings in the world.
The oldest surviving gun, found in Acheng, Heilongjiang, and dated to no later than 1290, is 34 cm long with a muzzle bore diameter of and weighs 3. 5 kg.
The oldest surviving world maps are the Babylonian world maps from the 9th century BCE.
Other surviving examples of clippers of the era are less well preserved, for example the oldest surviving clipper City of Adelaide ( a. k. a. S. V.
* Code of Ur-Nammu – the oldest known tablet containing a law code surviving today, it predates the Code of Hammurabi by some 300 years
Dartmouth's campus buildings vary in age from Wentworth and Thornton Halls of the 1820s ( the oldest surviving buildings constructed by the College ) to new dormitories and mathematics facilities completed in 2006.
Dedham is home to the Fairbanks House, the oldest surviving timber-frame house in the United States, scientifically dated to 1637.
One of the oldest surviving fragments of Euclid's Elements, found at Oxyrhynchus and dated to circa AD 100 ( Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 29 | P. Oxy.
The bones " are the oldest surviving remains of an English royal burial ," Bristol University announced in a press release.
The earliest surviving description of the Euclidean algorithm is in Euclid's Elements ( c. 300 BC ), making it one of the oldest numerical algorithms still in common use.
This is one of the oldest of the surviving Middle Eastern Deluge myths.
He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States ( 1981 – 89 ), a congressman, an ambassador, a Director of Central Intelligence, and is currently the oldest surviving president.
The oldest surviving gun, made of bronze, has been dated to 1288 because it was discovered at a site in modern-day Acheng District, Heilongjiang, China, where the Yuan Shi records that battles were fought at that time.
oldest and planetary
* 2nd millennium BC – earliest possible date for the composition of the Babylonian Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa, a 7th century BC copy of a list of observations of the motions of the planet Venus, and the oldest planetary table currently known.
Because chondrites represent the oldest solid material within our solar system and are believed to be the building blocks of the planetary system, it follows that an understanding of the formation of chondrules is important to understand the initial development of the planetary system.
Because the oldest seafloor is only 170 million years old, whereas the oldest bit of continental crust goes back to 4 billion years or more, it makes sense to emphasize the much longer record of the planetary pulse that is recorded in the continents.
oldest and astronomical
The oldest known Huygens style pendulum clock is dated 1657 and can be seen at the Museum Boerhaave in Leiden which also shows an important astronomical clock owned and used by Huygens.
* c. 1600 BC: The creation of one of the oldest surviving astronomical documents, a copy of which was found in the Babylonian library of Ashurbanipal: a 21-year record of the appearances of Venus ( which the early Babylonians called Nindaranna ): Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa.
* The creation of one of the oldest surviving astronomical documents, a copy of which was found in the Babylonian library of Ashurbanipal: a 21-year record of the appearances of Venus ( which the early Babylonians called Nindaranna ).
The oldest significant astronomical text that we possess is Tablet 63 of ' Enūma Anu Enlil ', the Venus tablet of Ammi-saduqa, which lists the first and last visible risings of Venus over a period of about 21 years and is the earliest evidence that the phenomena of a planet were recognized as periodic.
One of the oldest clocks in the collection is an astronomical clock of 1588 by Francis Nowe.
The Uppsala Astronomical Observatory ( UAO ; Astronomiska observatoriet i Uppsala ) is the oldest astronomical observatory in Sweden.
* The oldest astronomical public observatory in the country is located in the former farm dependencies of the abbey.
The Cheomseongdae is the oldest surviving observatory in East Asia, though some claim that Cheomseongdae was not suitable for astronomical observation.
Today, one of the oldest astronomical societies in Croatia bears the name " Faust Vrančić ", as does a Croatian Navy rescue ship, as well as many schools in Croatia.
The oldest surviving clock tower in Europe is the Salisbury cathedral clock, completed in 1306 ; and another clock put up at St. Albans, in 1326, ' showed various astronomical phenomena '.
The clock was first installed in 1410, making it the third-oldest astronomical clock in the world and the oldest one still working.
The oldest part of the Orloj, the mechanical clock and astronomical dial, dates back to 1410 when it was made by clockmaker Mikuláš of Kadaň and Jan Šindel, the latter a professor of mathematics and astronomy at Charles University.
He became the second director of the Hopkins Observatory at Williams College, the oldest extant astronomical observatory in the United States.
In 2005 the Bickley site was Heritage listed, being Australia's oldest continuing operating observatory and Australia's only remaining State Government operated astronomical observatory.
As organizers of the oldest open astronomical olympiads and competitions ( since 1940s ), and due to their historical service in the formation and development of IAO they are considered at IAO as independent states with all rights and duties.
The world's oldest known astronomical calculator, the Antikythera Mechanism ( 2nd century BC ), performs calculations based on both the Metonic, and Callipic calendar cycles, with separate dials for each.
It is one of the oldest fields of the astronomical science.
Based on the orientation of the ceremonial plazas, this is also believed to be the oldest astronomical observatory in the Antilles.
It is operated by the Vatican Observatory, one of the oldest astronomical research institutions in the world, in partnership with The University of Arizona.
In 1993, the National Academy of Sciences announced that they would share the Henry Draper Medal, the oldest award of the Academy, for their contributions to astronomical physics.
1.330 seconds.