Analyzing shell structure from Babylon and modern times

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-579589
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.57958

Brack-Bernsen, Lis

; Brack, Matthias

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Abstract

We investigate "shell structure" from Babylonian times: periodicities and beats in computer-simulated lunar data corresponding to those observed by Babylonian scribes some 2500 years ago. We discuss the mathematical similarity between the Babylonians' recently reconstructed method of determining one of the periods of the moon with modern Fourier analysis and the interpretation of shell structure ...