This ancient Babylonian map of Jupiter just changed history as we know it
You're looking at the foundations of modern calculus.
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| Trustees of the British Museum/Mathieu Ossendrijver |
Analysis of an ancient code breaking tablet has revealed that Babylonian astronomers had calculated the movements of Jupiter using an early form of geometric calculus some 1,400 years before we thought the technique was invented by the Europeans.
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