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Ancient Astronomy and Celestial Divination / (Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

by: Swerdlow, N.M.

Price: 175,00 EURO

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Category: Ancient Technology / Science
Code: 6577
ISBN-13: 9780262194228 / 978-0-262-19422-8
ISBN-10: 0262194228 / 0-262-19422-8
Publisher: The MIT Press
Publication Date: 1999
Publication Place: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 378
Book Condition: New
Comments: This volume presents recent work on Babylonian celestialdivination and on the Greek inheritors of the Babyloniantradition

 Ancient astronomy and celestial divination

Author: N. M. Swerdlow

Series:
Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology

x, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm


Contents:
Introduction / N.M. Swerdlow
Babylonian celestial divination / Erica Reiner
Babylonian horoscopy : the texts and their relations / F. Rochberg
Babylonian observations of Saturn during the reign of Kandalanu / C.B.F. Walker
Non-mathematical astronomical texts and their relationships / Hermann Hunger
Normal star observations in late Babylonian astronomical diaries / Gerd Grasshoff
Goal-year tablets : lunar data and predictions / Lis Brack-Bernsen
A new mathematical text from the astronomical archive in Babylon : BM 36849
Lunar anomaly in Babylonian astronomy : portrait of an original theory / John P. Britton
The derivation of the parameters of Babylonian planetary theory with time as the principal independent variable / N.M. Swerdlow
A classification of astronomical tables on papyrus / Alexander Jones
The role of observation in Ptolemy's lunar theories / Bernard R. Goldstein and Alan C. Bowen
Theon of Alexandria and Ptolemy's Handy tables / Anne Tihon

 

Subjects:
Astrologie assyro-babylonienne
Astrology history
Astrology, Assyro-Babylonian
Astronomia Grecia antica
Astronomia assiro-babilonese
Astronomie antique
Astronomie assyro-babylonienne
Astronomie grecque
Astronomy history
Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian
Astronomy, Greek
Sterrenkunde
 
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Ancient Astronomy and Celestial Divination / (Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

by: Swerdlow, N.M.

  • ISBN-13: 9780262194228 / 978-0-262-19422-8
  • ISBN-03: 0262194228 / 0-262-19422-8
  • The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1999

Price: 175,00 EURO

1 copy in stock
 

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