Swerdlow, Noel M. (Editor)
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.
Review Evans, James (2002) Review of "Ancient Astronomy and Celestial Divination". Journal for the History of Astronomy (p. 75).
Essay Review
Steele, John M.;
(2000)
Babylonian Lunar Theory Reconsidered
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Essay Review
Evans, James;
(2001)
Greek Astronomy from Alexandria, Byantium and Louvain-La-Neuve
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Book
Theon, of Alexandria;
(1999)
Théon of Alexandria: Le Grand Commentaire de Théon d'Alexandrie aux Tables Faciles de Ptolémée: Vol. 4
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Article
Wolfgang Hübner;
(2016)
Zodiakale und planetare Dekane
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Article
Jones, Alexander;
(2000)
Studies in the Astronomy of the Roman Period IV: Solar Tables Based on a Non-Hipparchian Model
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Book
David Brown;
Jonathan Ben-Dov;
(2018)
The Interactions of Ancient Astral Science
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Book
Jones, Alexander;
(2010)
Ptolemy in Perspective: Use and Criticism of His Work from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
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Article
Sidoli, Nathan;
(2014)
Mathematical Tables in Ptolemy's Almagest
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Chapter
Grasshoff, Gerd;
(2012)
Globalization of Ancient Knowledge: From Babylonian Observations to Scientific Regularities
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Article
Stern, Sacha;
(2008)
The Babylonian Month and the New Moon: Sighting and Prediction
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Article
Bernard, Alain;
(2010)
The Significance of Ptolemy's Almagest for Its Early Readers
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Article
Huber, Peter J.;
Steele, John M.;
(2007)
Babylonian Lunar Six Tablets
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Article
Steele, J. M.;
(2007)
Celestial Measurement in Babylonian Astronomy
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Book
Imhausen, Annette;
Pommerening, Tanja;
(2010)
Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome, and Greece: Translating Ancient Scientific Texts
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Chapter
Jones, Alexander;
(2010)
Ancient Rejection and Adoption of Ptolemy's Frame of Reference for Longitudes
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Article
Calderón Dorda, E.;
(2001)
Los compuestos de συν- en Gémino: su valor astrológico (y astronómico)
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Article
Steele, J. M.;
(2006)
Miscellaneous Lunar Tables from Babylon
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Book
Horstmanshoff, H. F. J.;
Stol, Marten;
Tilburg, C. R. van;
(2004)
Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine
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Book
Ciraolo, Leda Jean;
Seidel, Jonathan Lee;
(2002)
Magic and Divination in the Ancient World
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Article
Anne Tihon;
(2018)
Le diagramme des horizons et les prosneuses des éclipses dans l'astronomie de Ptolémée
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