Recent content by Mr Joe Bangles

Hi there, my name is Isaac, and I am interested in metrology, math history, mathematical astronomy and their relationships found in the study of ancient texts ( Ephemeris, omen texts, procedural texts, etc ), mainly cuneiform and some pre-cuneiform I have no formal training in mathematics, am a...

Indeed, Perok. This passage from Plato is what got me started on the topic, originally "Now for divine begettings there is a period comprehended by a perfect number, and for mortal by the first in which augmentations dominating and dominated when they have attained to three distances and four...

OK, thanks for putting it in traditional notation That's very interesting, ...the cube root The cube root of the ancients' 25,920 year equinox precession cycle is approximate to the synodic month average as per the Babylonian Zig Zag function Perhaps a basis for associating the " Great Month...

Hello, quick question here I am studying mathematical astronomy / the history of , and I have noted that by raising the average sidereal period of any planet in our solar system, to the power .666666, that you are left with the average distance of that planet from the Sun, in AU I was told...