Diffusion Science radio: Strange geometry in Antiquity - part 1

Strange geometry in Antiquity - part 1


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Dr Daniel Mansfield speaks with Ian Woolf about the strange geometry used by the Babylonians 4000 years ago - part 1.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Dr Daniel Mansfield in a museum, holding an ancient clay tablet with gloved hands
Dr Daniel Mansfield
Perpendicular Lines and Diagonal Triples in Old Babylonian Surveying
Plimpton 322 is Babylonian exact sexagesimal trigonometry
Dr Daniel Mansfield will be speaking at the Frontiers of Science Forum 12th March 2021



February 22, 2021
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