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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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.
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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