====== Aaboe, Asger Hartvig ======

== Name ==
Aaboe, Asger Hartvig

== Dates ==
26 April 1922 - 19 January 2007

== Birthplace ==
Copenhagen, Denmark

== Specialization ==
Assyriology, History of Science

== Major works ==
*On Babylonian Planetary Theories, Yale Dissertation 1957
*On the Tables of Planetary Visibility in the Almagest and the Handy Tables. Munksgaard, 1960
*Episodes from the Early History of Mathematics. Random House 1964
*Contributions to the study of Babylonian Lunar Theory. (with Norman Hamilton). Munksgaard 1979
*Saros Cycle Dates and Related Babylonian Astronomical Texts. Am. Phil. Soc. 1991. (with J.P. Britton, J.A. Henderson, O. Neugebauer, A.J. Sachs)
*Episodes from the Early History of Astronomy. Springer-Verlag 2001

== Remarks ==
Member of the faculty at Yale University and contributor to the study of Babylonian astronomy and mathematics.

== Obituaries ==
[[http://www.ircps.org/publications/aestimatio/pdf/Volume3/2006-10-03_Britton.pdf|John P. Britton, In memoriam Asger Hartvig Aaboe, Aestimatio 3 (2006) 118–121]]

== Bibliography ==

[[http://cdli.ucla.edu/pubs/cdln/php/bib/whoswho.php?author=aaboe|Asger Aaboe's works]]