Steele, John M. (Author)
Sciamvs: Sources and Commentaries in Exact Sciences
Volume: 14
Pages: 3--39
Several schemes which model the variation in the length of the shadow cast by a gnomon at different times of day over the course of the year are presented in astronomical cuneiform texts. The early astronomical compendium known as MUL.APIN contains ascheme which assumes a simple reciprocal relationship between the length of the shadow and the time after sunrise. The MUL.APIN scheme, which is the earliest known shadow-length scheme, has been studied by several scholars over the past century, but most of these previous studies incorporate assumptions about the Babylonian model for the change in the length of daylight throughout the year that have been shown to be erroneous in the light of more recently published texts.
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