by hadassah | Dec 9, 2008 | What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
The Babylonian Map, 2360-2150 BCE The oldest known map dates to the Akkad period. Only about two and one-half inches on a side, the tablet is either a road map or a record of landholding. The circle in the lower left of the tablet might represent the city of...
by hadassah | Dec 9, 2008 | What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
Mirror of Princess Sithathoriunet, 1850 BCE This mirror was discovered by Flinders Petrie and Guy Bunton in 1914 at pyramid complex of Sesostris II. It was found with other cosmetic vessels and jewelry in the shaft tomb of Princess Sithathoriunet at el-Lahun....
by hadassah | Dec 8, 2008 | What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
Polygon Tablet Tablet illustrating a method for calculating the areas of regular polygons. Harper, Prudence O., et al. The Royal City of Susa- Ancient Near Eastern Treasures in the Louvre. New York- Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992. See also- Mathematical...
by hadassah | Dec 8, 2008 | What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
Tell Harmal Mathematical Tablets Left- Algebraic-geometrical tablet involving triangles described by a perpendicular drawn from the right angle to the hypotenuse (similar to Euclid’s theory), from Tell Harmal, datable to the early 2nd millennium BCE. Right-...
by hadassah | Dec 8, 2008 | What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
Mathematical Cuneiform Tablet, 19th century BCE Cuneiform tablet dated to the 19th century BC, found among the large archive recovered from Tell Harmal. It is a school exercise in surveying based on a rightangled ‘Pythagorean’ triangle. It depends...
by hadassah | Dec 8, 2008 | What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, 1575 BCE The most famous mathematical work form dynastic Egypt is the Rhind mathematical papyrus, copied by the scribe Ahmes or Ahmose from a papyrus of 1849-1801 B.C.E. It was bought by A. H. Rhind at Luxor in 1858 and is now in...
