Mul-Apin Tablets
Some of the contents are as follows:
- Improvements to the older lists of the stars of Ea, Anu, and Enlil;
- Lists of stars that rise while others set;
- Lists of periodicity of visibility of certain stars;
- Lists of secondary stars (ziqpu);
- Reports of lunar eclipses no later than the seventh century BCE;
- A list of eighteen constellations in the path of the Moon;
- A statement that the Sun, the Moon, and five planets were considered to move on the same path;
- A list showing, by mathematical calculations, when the shadow of a vertical rod (gnomon) one cubit high is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10 cubits long at various seasons;
- Rules for calculating the rising and the setting of the Moon.
