>Four procedure texts, most likely written in Babylon between 350 and 50 BCE, reveal that Babylonian astronomers computed the distance traveled by Jupiter from the area of a figure representing a graph of its changing daily displacement (velocity) against time. Historians of science thus far thought that this type of geometrical representation and computation of motion, well known to modern students of physics, was invented in the fourteenth century AD. As it now appears, Babylonian astronomers already came up with a very similar idea.
