Article ID: CBB672604826

How Can We Incorporate Visual Evidence into the History of the Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia? (September 2020)

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Steele, John M. (Author)


NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Volume: 28
Issue: 3
Pages: 305-324


Publication Date: September 2020
Edition Details: Special Issue: Imagining the Heavens. Historiographical Challenges and Eurasian Perspectives
Language: English

Significant progress has been made in understanding Mesopotamian astronomy and astrology since the decipherment of cuneiform tablets containing astronomical and astrological texts in the late nineteenth century. However, until now few attempts have been made to write a detailed history of the Mesopotamian astral sciences as opposed to detailed studies of particular texts and types of astronomy or astrology. My aim in this paper is to present some ideas of how such a history should be written and in particular to consider if and how visual evidence can be brought alongside textual evidence in the writing of this history.

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Article Sonja Brentjes; Dagmar Schäfer (September 2020) Visualizations of the Heavens Before 1700 as a Concern of the History of Science, Medicine and Technology. NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin (pp. 295-304). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Steele, John M.
Verderame, Lorenzo
Rochberg, Francesca
Kurtik, G. E.
Brown, David
Morgan, Daniel Patrick
Concepts
Astrology
Astronomy
Constellations; zodiac
Cuneiform inscriptions
Celestial maps; star catalogs
Calendars
Time Periods
Ancient
Early modern
Places
Mesopotamia
Middle and Near East
Greece
Egypt
China
Rome (Italy)
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