Brill's Companion to Hellenistic Astronomy : a The Science in Its Contexts /
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In Hellenistic Astronomy: The Science in Its Contexts , new essays by renowned scholars address questions about what the ancient science of the heavens was in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean worlds, and the numerous contexts in which it was pursued. Together, these essays will enable readers not only to understand the technical accomplishments of this ancient science but also to appreciate their historical significance by locating the questions, challenges, and issues inspiring them in their political, medical, philosophical, literary, and religious contexts.
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1 online resource :
9789004400566
Keeping watch in Babylon : the astronomical diaries in context /
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This volume of collected essays, the first of its kind in any language, investigates the Astronomical Diaries from ancient Babylon, a collection of almost 1000 clay tablets which, over a period of some five hundred years (6th century to 1st century BCE), record observations of selected astronomical phenomena as well as the economy and history of Mesopotamia and surrounding regions. The volume asks who the scholars were, what motivated them to 'keep watch in Babylon' and how their approach changed in the course of the collection's long history. Contributors come from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including Assyriology, Classics, ancient history, the history of science and the history of religion.
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1 online resource. :
9789004397767
Mathematical astronomy in medieval Yemen : a biobibliographical survey /
: "Published under the auspices of the American Research Center in Egypt, Incude" : ix, 98 pages, 10 pages of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages [75]-80) and index. : 0890030995 (hard)
Astral sciences in Mesopotamia /
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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.
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1 online resource (xviii, 303 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-292) and index. :
9789004294134 :
0169-9423 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Mathematical astronomy in medieval Yemen : a biobibliographical survey /
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"Published under the auspices of the American Research Center in Egypt, Inc." :
ix, 98 pages, 10 pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles ; 28 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-80) and indexes. :
0890030987
9780890030981
0890030995
9780890030998