Author: Leonard William KingPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
A Neo-Babylonian Astronomical Treatise in the British Museum
Author: Leonard William KingProceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology
Author: Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England)Publisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Astronomy and History Selected Essays
Author: O. NeugebauerPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461255597
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
The collection of papers assembled here on a variety of topics in ancient and medieval astronomy was originally suggested by Noel Swerdlow of the University of Chicago. He was also instrumental in making a selection* which would, in general, be on the same level as my book The Exact Sciences in Antiquity. It may also provide a general background for my more technical History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy and for my edition of Astronomi cal Cuneiform Texts. Several of these republished articles were written because I wanted to put to rest well-entrenched historical myths which could not withstand close scrutiny of the sources. Examples are the supposed astronomical origin of the Egyptian calendar (see [9]), the discovery of precession by the Babylonians [16], and the "simplification" of the Ptolemaic system in Copernicus' De Revolutionibus [40]. In all of my work I have striven to present as accurately as I could what the original sources reveal (which is often very different from the received view). Thus, in [32] discussion of the technical terminology illuminates the meaning of an ancient passage which has been frequently misused to support modern theories about ancient heliocentrism; in [33] an almost isolated instance reveals how Greek world-maps really looked; and in [43] the Alexandrian Easter computus, held in awe by many historians, is shown from Ethiopic sources to be based on very simple procedures.
A History of Babylonia and Assyria
Author: Leonard William KingPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
A History of Babylon from the Foundation of the Monarchy to the Persian Conquest
Author: Leonard William KingPublisher:
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Category : Babylonia
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
American Journal of Archaeology
Author: Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia
Author: Hermann HungerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004294139
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Astronomy and astrology, or the astral sciences, played an enormous, if not a key role in the political and religious life of the Ancient Near East, and, later, of the Greek and Roman world. This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of the origins of the astral sciences in the Ancient Near East. Every type of Sumerian or Akkadian text dealing with descriptive or mathematical astronomy, including many individual tablets are thoroughly dealt with. All aspects, such as the history of discovery, reconstruction, and interpretation come to the fore, accompanied by a full bibliography. At that the reader will find descriptions of astronomical contents, an explanation of their scientific meaning and the place a given genre or tablet has in the development of astronomy both within the Mesopotamian culture and outside of it. Because celestial omens are intimately related to astronomy in Mesopotamian science, these are also discussed extensively. The material is arranged both chronologically and thematically, so as to help make Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia a reference work on the subject in its truest sense.
Luzac & Co.'s Oriental List
Author: Journal of the Royal Society of Arts
Author: Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)Publisher:
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
Book Description
A History of Babilonia
Author: Leonard W. KingPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752407794
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: A History of Babilonia by Leonard W. King