The book is an expanded version of a paper, “The derivation of the parameters of Babylonian planetary theory with time as the principal independent variable”, presented at a conference at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology in May 1994, which is being published in Ancient astronomy and celestial divination, ed. by SwerdlowN. M. (M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1998).
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GrasshoffG., “Normal Star observations in Late Babylonian Astronomical Diaries”, in Swerdlow (ed.), op. cit. The author cites, but evidently rejects, the relevant conclusions from this study.
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HuberP., “Astronomical dating of Babylon I and Ur III, Occasional papers on the Near East, i/4 (1982), 14.
