1. See Neugebauer (1975: 607–614).
2. For a general history of the excavations and the recovery of the cuneiform texts, see Larsen (1996) and Budge (1925). Details of the recovery of the astronomical and astrological tablets are given by Neugebauer (1957: 53–70).
3. There is no firm evidence for similar long-term systematic observational programmes in the other Mesopotamian cities. However, during the eighth and seventh centuries BC, reports of astronomical observations and their astrological interpretations were regularly sent to the Assyrian kings in Nineveh.
4. Aaboe (1974) has described this final type of astronomy as “scientific,” that is “a mathematical description of celestial phenomena capable of yielding numerical predictions that can be tested against observations.”
5. For a general overview of the legacy of Babylonian astronomy in other cultures, see Pingree (1998) and Neugebauer (1963). For the records of Babylonian astronomical observations in Ptolemy’s Almagest, see Chapter 3. On the transmission of Babylonian mathematical astronomy to Greece, see Toomer (1988) and Jones (1991, 1993), and to India, see Pingree (1973, 1987).