Book ID: CBB000830863

Calendars and Years: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient Near East (2007)

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Steele, John M. (Editor)


Oxbow


Publication Date: 2007
Edition Details: From a session on “Calendars and years” at the seventh biennial History of Astronomy Workshop held at Notre Dame University on 8 July 2005.
Physical Details: vii + 167 pp.; ill.; bibl.
Language: English

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Reviewed By

Review Rochberg, Francesca (2008) Review of "Calendars and Years: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient Near East". Journal for the History of Astronomy (p. 541). unapi

Review Lehoux, Daryn (2011) Review of "Calendars and Years: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient Near East". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 554). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Jones, Alexander (2007) On Greek Stellar and Zodiacal Date-Reckoning. In: Calendars and Years: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient Near East. unapi

Chapter Symons, Sarah (2007) A Star's Year: The Annual Cycle in the Ancient Egyptian Sky. In: Calendars and Years: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient Near East. unapi

Chapter Depuydt, Leo (2007) Calendars and Years in Ancient Egypt: The Soundness of Egyptian and West Asian Chronology in 1500--500 BC and the Consistency of the Egyptian 365-Day Wandering Year. In: Calendars and Years: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient Near East. unapi

Chapter Brack-Bernsen, Lis (2007) The 360-Day Year in Mesopotamia. In: Calendars and Years: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient Near East. unapi

Chapter Horowitz, Wayne (2007) The Astrolables: Astronomy, Theology, and Chronology. In: Calendars and Years: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient Near East. unapi

Chapter Britton, John P. (2007) Calendars, Intercalations and Year-Lengths in Mesopotamian Astronomy. In: Calendars and Years: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient Near East. unapi

Chapter Steele, John M. (2007) The Length of the Month in Mesopotamian Calendars of the First Millenium BC. In: Calendars and Years: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient Near East. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Steele, John M.
Brack-Bernsen, Lis
Reynolds, Frances
Schiefsky, Mark
Zucconi, Laura M.
Williams, Clemency J.
Journals
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Osmanli Bilimi Arastirmalari: Studies in Ottoman Science
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science
Publishers
Hempen Verlag
University of California, San Diego
Oxford University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
de Gruyter
Brill
Concepts
Astronomy
Calendars
Astronomical chronology
Mathematics
Eclipses; transits; occultations; conjunctions
Medicine
Time Periods
Ancient
Places
Middle and Near East
Mesopotamia
Greece
Egypt
Rome (Italy)
India
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