Ancient Babylonian astronomers calculated Jupiter’s position from the area under a time-velocity graph

@article{Ossendrijver2016AncientBA,
  title={Ancient Babylonian astronomers calculated Jupiter’s position from the area under a time-velocity graph},
  author={Mathieu Ossendrijver},
  journal={Science},
  year={2016},
  volume={351},
  pages={482 - 484},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:206644971}
}
In four ancient Babylonian cuneiform tablets, Jupiter’s displacement along the ecliptic is computed as the area of a trapezoidal figure obtained by drawing its daily displacement against time, the first evidence for the use of geometrical methods in Babylonian mathematical astronomy.
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