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.
Hellenistic Astronomy
Hellenistic 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 Hellenistic Astronomy write by Alan C. Bowen. This book was released on 2020-02-17. Hellenistic Astronomy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Hellenistic Astronomy: The Science in Its Contexts, renowned scholars address questions about what the ancient science of the heavens was and the numerous contexts in which it was pursued.
Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy: Procedure Texts
Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy: Procedure Texts - 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 Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy: Procedure Texts write by Mathieu Ossendrijver. This book was released on 2012-04-24. Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy: Procedure Texts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book contains new translations and a new analysis of the procedure texts of Babylonian mathematical astronomy, the earliest known form of mathematical astronomy of the ancient world. The translations are based on a modern approach incorporating recent insights from Assyriology and translation science. The work contains updated and expanded interpretations of the astronomical algorithms and investigations of previously ignored linguistic, mathematical and other aspects of the procedure texts. Special attention is paid to issues of mathematical representation and over 100 photos of cuneiform tablets dating from 350-50 BCE are presented. In 2-3 years, the author intends to continue his study of Babylonian mathematical astronomy with a new publication which will contain new editions and reconstructions of approx. 250 tabular texts and a new philological, astronomical and mathematical analysis of these texts. Tabular texts are end products of Babylonian math astronomy, computed with algorithms that are formulated in the present volume, Procedure Texts.
The Babylonian Theory of the Planets
The Babylonian Theory of the Planets - 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 Babylonian Theory of the Planets write by N. M. Swerdlow. This book was released on 2014-07-14. The Babylonian Theory of the Planets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the second millennium b.c., Babylonian scribes assembled a vast collection of astrological omens, believed to be signs from the gods concerning the kingdom's political, military, and agricultural fortunes. The importance of these omens was such that from the eighth or seventh until the first century, the scribes observed the heavens nightly and recorded the dates and locations of ominous phenomena of the moon and planets in relation to stars and constellations. The observations were arranged in monthly reports along with notable events and prices of agricultural commodities, the object being to find correlations between phenomena in the heavens and conditions on earth. These collections of omens and observations form the first empirical science of antiquity and were the basis of the first mathematical science, astronomy. For it was discovered that planetary phenomena, although irregular and sometimes concealed by bad weather, recur in limited periods within cycles in which they are repeated on nearly the same dates and in nearly the same locations. N. M. Swerdlow's book is a study of the collection and observation of ominous celestial phenomena and of how intervals of time, locations by zodiacal sign, and cycles in which the phenomena recur were used to reduce them to purely arithmetical computation, thereby surmounting the greatest obstacle to observation, bad weather. The work marks a striking advance in our understanding of both the origin of scientific astronomy and the astrological divination through which the kingdoms of ancient Mesopotamia were governed. Originally published in 1998. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
