Die Tontafel "Si.427".
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Download von www.picturedesk.com am 06.08.2021 (09:58). ACT action_36369772 -- Please note mandatory credit 'UNSW Sydney' .Si.427 a hand tablet from 1900-1600 BC, created by an Old Babylonian surveyor. It’s made out of clay and the surveyor wrote on it with a stylus. On the front, we see a diagram of a field. The field is being split, and some of it is being sold. The lines demarcate the boundaries of the different fields. See SWNS story SWNNgeometry. The oldest example of applied geometry has been discovered on a 3,700-year-old clay tablet that uses maths attributed to Pythagoras 1,000 years later. The tablet – known as Si.427 – was discovered in the late 19th Century in what is now central Iraq, but its significance was unknown until an Australian mathematician conducted some detective work. Now Si.427 is thought to be the oldest known example of applied geometry, according to the findings published in the journal Foundations of Science. Lead researcher Dr Daniel Mansfield, of the University of New South Wales in Australia, said: “Si.427 dates from the Old Babylonian, or OB, period – 1900 to 1600 BC. - 20210804_PD23864 - Rechteinfo: Rights Managed (RM)
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