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Author: Johannes Haubold Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004397760 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 323
Book Description
This volume offers the first holistic examination of the Astronomical Diaries, a remarkable set of 1000 clay tablets from ancient Babylon in which for over 500 years (6th–1st century BCE) scholars combined astronomical observations with records of events on earth.
Author: Johannes Haubold Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004397760 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 323
Book Description
This volume offers the first holistic examination of the Astronomical Diaries, a remarkable set of 1000 clay tablets from ancient Babylon in which for over 500 years (6th–1st century BCE) scholars combined astronomical observations with records of events on earth.
Author: Abraham Sachs Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 472
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A large volume of tablets, transliterated by Abraham Sachs and Hermann Hunger, of lunar and planetary information dating from the 8th to 1st century BC. The first part examines tablets relating to the moon, especially eclipse reports, the second to the planets and the recurrence of astronomical phenomena. An appendix contains a list of eclipse dates.
Author: Abraham J. Sachs Publisher: ISBN: 9783700190325 Category : Akkadian language Languages : en Pages : 0
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From the 7th to the 1st century BC, daily observations of the sky were performed and their results written down on clay tablets in some Babylonian cities, especially in Babylon. The observations concern the moon and the planets and their phenomena, as well as the weather, the level of the River Euphrates and the prices of important commodities. While these "Astronomical Diaries" are mostly fragmentary and cover only a small part of the period concerned, they nevertheless provide important insights into an observational program that was carried out over seven centuries and contains valuable material even for modern astronomers. Volume IV contains all Astronomical Diaries that were too fragmentary to be dated and, in an Addenda section, those that it was only possible to date after the publication of volumes I-III. Together, volumes I-IV provide the complete edition of this group of cuneiform texts. It can be expected that the newly dated Diaries in particular will prove interesting for astronomers and historians, and will contribute new details to the history of Babylonia in the Hellenistic and Parthian periods.
Author: Abraham Sachs Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 154
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This volume contains an edition of clay tablets written during the time from the 3rd century BC to the 1st century AD. They list astronomical phenomena for a given year in chronological sequence, like a calendar. All data are calculated in advance. They are: first and last appearances of the moon and planets, with day number and zodiacal sign; solstices and equinoxes and phenomena of Sirius. For the outer planets, stations and acronychal risings are given. Furthermore the entrances of planets into zodiacal signs are listed. In some of the tablets, the conjunctions of planets with fixed stars are predicted. The predictions were most likely done with the help of Goal-Year Texts, which were edited in volume VI.
Author: Johannes Haubold
Author: Johannes Haubold
Author: Abraham J. Sachs
Author: Abraham Sachs
Author: Abraham J. Sachs
Author: Abraham Sachs
Author: Abraham Joseph Sachs
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Author: Abraham J. Sachs
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Author: Hermann Hunger