Book ID: CBB267731888

The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (2016)

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Steele, John M. (Editor)


Brill


Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: x, 586 pp.
Language: English

Astronomical and astrological knowledge circulated in many ways in the ancient world: in the form of written texts and through oral communication; by the conscious assimilation of sought-after knowledge and the unconscious absorption of ideas to which scholars were exposed. The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World explores the ways in which astronomical knowledge circulated between different communities of scholars over time and space, and what was done with that knowledge when it was received. Examples are discussed from Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Greco-Roman world, India, and China.

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Review Jacqueline Feke (2018) Review of "The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World". Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science (pp. 115-118). unapi

Review Mathieu Ossendrijver (2018) Review of "The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World". Journal for the History of Astronomy (pp. 125-129). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Joachim Friedrich Quack (2016) On the Concomitancy of the Seemingly Incommensurable, or Why Egyptian Astral Tradition Needs to be Analyzed within Its Cultural Context. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 230-244). unapi

Chapter Dennis Duke (2016) Were Planetary Models of Ancient India Strongly Influenced by Greek Astronomy?. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 559-575). unapi

Chapter Weixing Niu (2016) On the Dunhuang Manuscript P.4071: A Case Study on the Sinicization of Western Horoscope in Late 10th Century China. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 527-558). unapi

Chapter Zoë Misiewicz (2016) Mesopotamian Lunar Omens in Justinian’s Constantinople. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 350-395). unapi

Chapter Andreas Winkler (2016) Some Astrologers and Their Handbooks in Demotic Egyptian. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 245-286). unapi

Chapter Daniel Patrick Morgan (2016) Mercury and the Case for Plural Planetary Traditions in Early Imperial China. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 416-450). unapi

Chapter Ethan Harkness (2016) A Parallel Universe: The Transmission of Astronomical Terminology in Early Chinese Almanacs. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 396-415). unapi

Chapter Zackary Wainer (2016) Traditions of Mesopotamian Celestial-Divinatory Schemes and the 4th Tablet of Šumma Sin ina Tāmartišu. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 55-82). unapi

Chapter Matthew T. Rutz (2016) Astral Knowledge in an International Age: Transmission of the Cuneiform Tradition, ca. 1500–1000 B.C.. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 18-54). unapi

Chapter Alexander Jones (2016) Interpolated Observations and Historical Observational Records in Ptolemy’s Astronomy. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 316-349). unapi

Chapter John Z. Wee (2016) Virtual Moons over Babylonia: The Calendar Text System, Its Micro-Zodiac of 13, and the Making of Medical Zodiology. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 139-229). unapi

Chapter Yuzhen Guan (2016) Calendrical Systems in Early Imperial China: Reform, Evaluation and Tradition. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 451-477). unapi

Chapter Francesca Rochberg (2016) The Brown School of the History of Science: Historiography and the Astral Sciences. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 5-17). unapi

Chapter M. Willis Monroe (2016) The Micro-Zodiac in Babylon and Uruk: Seleucid Zodiacal Astrology. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 119-138). unapi

Chapter Shenmi Song (2016) The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac during the Tang and Song Dynasties: A Set of Signs Which Lost Their Meanings within Chinese Horoscopic Astrology. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 478-526). unapi

Chapter Clemency Montelle (2016) The Anaphoricus of Hypsicles of Alexandria. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 287-315). unapi

Chapter John M. Steele (2016) The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge between Babylon and Uruk. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 83-118). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Steele, John M.
Verderame, Lorenzo
Brown, David
Guichard, Luis Arturo
Santamaría, Marco Antonio
Massimo Lopez
Journals
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Anthropozoologica
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Gangemi Editore
Hempen Verlag
Università di Messina, Dipartimento di scienze dell'antichità
Styx
Princeton University Press
Concepts
Astronomy
Astrology
Medicine
Mathematics
Cosmology
Calendars
People
Empedocles of Agrigentum
Time Periods
Ancient
Precolumbian period (America)
Prehistory
Early modern
Renaissance
Medieval
Places
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Greece
Middle and Near East
China
India
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