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We owe the decipherment of the first planetary tables to the same Jesuit father, Franz Xaver Kugler, who explained the Babylonian lunar theory. The tables available to him were principally concerned with Jupiter. In his ‘Sternkunde und Sterndienst in Babel’ I (1907) he distinguishes ‘Jupiter tables of the first, second and third types’. Neugebauer labelled the types A, A′ nad B, because the first two (A and A′) are related to the lunar system A, the third (B) to system B.
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van der Waerden, B.L. (1974). Babylonian Planetary Theory. In: Science Awakening II. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2952-9_8
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