Rising Time Schemes in Babylonian Astronomy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rising Time Schemes in Babylonian Astronomy write by John M. Steele. This book was released on 2017-03-20. Rising Time Schemes in Babylonian Astronomy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This revealing work examines an approach from ancient astronomy to what was then a particularly important question, namely that of understanding the relationship between the position in the ecliptic and the time it takes for a fixed-length of the ecliptic beginning at that point to rise above the eastern horizon. Schemes known as “rising time schemes” were used to give lengths of the celestial equator corresponding to each of the twelve zodiacal signs which make up the ecliptic. This book investigates the earliest known examples of these schemes which come from Babylonia and date to the mid to late first millennium BC. Making an important contribution to our knowledge of astronomy in the ancient world, this volume includes editions and translations of all of the known Babylonian rising time texts, including several texts that are identified for the first time. Through a close examination of the preserved texts it has been possible to reconstruct the complete Babylonian rising time scheme. This reconstruction is unprecedented in its completeness, and it is also now possible to situate the scheme within a genre of Babylonian astronomy known as schematic astronomy which presents theoretical descriptions of the astronomical phenomena. The unique discoveries and fresh explorations in this book will be of interest to historians of ancient astronomy, scholars of Babylonian history and those investigating the origins of scientific thought.
The Rising Times in Babylonian Astronomy
The Rising Times in Babylonian Astronomy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rising Times in Babylonian Astronomy write by Otto Neugebauer. This book was released on 1956. The Rising Times in Babylonian Astronomy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Dead Sea Scrolls, Revise and Repeat
Dead Sea Scrolls, Revise and Repeat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dead Sea Scrolls, Revise and Repeat write by Carmen Palmer. This book was released on 2020-09-28. Dead Sea Scrolls, Revise and Repeat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A reexamination of the people and movements associated with Qumran, their outlook on the world, and what bound them together Dead Sea Scrolls, Revise and Repeat examines the identity of the Qumran movement by reassessing former conclusions and bringing new methodologies to the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The collection as a whole addresses questions of identity as they relate to law, language, and literary formation; considerations of time and space; and demarcations of the body. The thirteen essays in this volume reassess the categorization of rule texts, the reuse of scripture, the significance of angelic fellowship, the varieties of calendrical use, and celibacy within the Qumran movement. Contributors consider identity in the Dead Sea Scrolls from new interdisciplinary perspectives, including spatial theory, legal theory, historical linguistics, ethnicity theory, cognitive literary theory, monster theory, and masculinity theory. Features Essays that draw on new theoretical frameworks and recent advances in Qumran studies A tribute to the late Peter Flint, whose scholarship helped to shape Qumran studies
A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy
A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy write by O. Neugebauer. This book was released on 2012-12-06. A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the reviews: "This monumental work will henceforth be the standard interpretation of ancient mathematical astronomy. It is easy to point out its many virtues: comprehensiveness and common sense are two of the most important. Neugebauer has studied profoundly every relevant text in Akkadian, Egyptian, Greek, and Latin, no matter how fragmentary; [...] With the combination of mathematical rigor and a sober sense of the true nature of the evidence, he has penetrated the astronomical and the historical significance of his material. [...] His work has been and will remain the most admired model for those working with mathematical and astronomical texts. D. Pingree in Bibliotheca Orientalis, 1977 "... a work that is a landmark, not only for the history of science, but for the history of scholarship. HAMA [History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy] places the history of ancient Astronomy on a entirely new foundation. We shall not soon see its equal. N.M. Swerdlow in Historia Mathematica, 1979
In the Path of the Moon
In the Path of the Moon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In the Path of the Moon write by Francesca Rochberg. This book was released on 2010-05-11. In the Path of the Moon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Celestial divination, in the form of omens from lunar, planetary, astral, and meteorological phenomena, was central to Mesopotamian cuneiform scholarship and science from the late second millennium BCE into the Hellenistic period. Beyond the boundaries of ancient Mesopotamia, the ideas, texts, and traditions of Babylonian celestial divination are traceable in Hellenistic sciences and philosophies. This collection of essays investigates features of Babylonian celestial divination with special focus on those aspects that influenced later Greco-Roman astronomy, astrology, and theories of signs. A multi-faceted collection of philological, historical, and philosophical investigations, In the Path of the Moon offers Assyriologists, Classicists, and historians of ancient science a wide-ranging series of studies unified around the theme of Babylonian celestial divination's legacy. "The collected essays in this volume, successive steps in an ordered path, constitute an invaluable contribution to a better understanding of Babylonian divination." Lorenzo Verderame, "Sapienza" Università di Roma "The reader interested in the multifaceted presentation of the problems related to the explanation of Babylonian celestial divination and well equipped with the knowledge of Akkadian will certainly be rewarded by the study of Rochberg’s latest publication." Henryk Drawnel, SDB
