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Ancient Astronomy and Celestial Divination (2000)

Swerdlow, Noel M. (Editor)

MIT Press

ISBN: 0262194228

Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: x + 378 pp., illus.
Language: English

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Mathematics Astrology Moon Astronomy Divination; prognostication Transmission of texts Tables; catalogs; lists Ancient Middle and Near East Assyria Rome (Italy) Babylon (extinct city) Greece Ptolemy Theon of Alexandria

Description This volume presents recent work on Babylonian celestial divination and on the Greek inheritors of the Babylonian tradition. Both philological and mathematical works are included. Contents: N. M. SWERDLOW, Introduction; ERICA REINER, Babylonian Celestial Divination; F. ROCHBERG, Babylonian Horoscopy: The Texts and Their Relations; C. B. F. WALKER, Babylonian Observations of Saturn during the Reign of Kandalanu; HERMANN HUNGER, Non-Mathematical Astronomical Texts and Their Relationships; GERD GRAßHOFF, Normal Star Observations in Late Babylonian Astronomical Diaries; LIS BRACK-BERNSEN, Goal-Year Tablets: Lunar Data and Predictions; ASGER AABOE, A New Mathematical Text from the Astronomical Archive in Babylon: BM 36849; JOHN P. BRITTON, Lunar Anomaly in Babylonian Astronomy: Portrait of an Original Theory; N. M. SWERDLOW, The Derivation of the Parameters of Babylonian Planetary Theory with Time as the Principal Independent Variable; ALEXANDER JONES, A Classification of Astronomical Tables on Papyrus; BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN, ALAN C. BOWEN, The Role of Observation in Ptolemy's Lunar Theories; ANNE TIHON, Theon of Alexandria and Ptolemy's Handy Tables.

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Review Evans, James (2002) Review of "Ancient Astronomy and Celestial Divination". Journal for the History of Astronomy (p. 75). unapi

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