Format:
1 Online-Ressource (X, 585 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9789004315631
Series Statement:
Time, astronomy, and calendars Volume 6
Content:
Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Brown School of the History of Science: Historiography and the Astral Sciences (Rochberg) -- Chapter 2. Astral Knowledge in an International Age: Transmission of the Cuneiform Tradition, ca. 1500-1000B.C. (Rutz) -- Chapter 3. Traditions of Mesopotamian Celestial-Divinatory Schemes and the 4th Tablet of Šumma Sin ina Tāmartišu (Wainer) -- Chapter 4. The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge between Babylon and Uruk (Steele) -- Chapter 5. The Micro-Zodiac in Babylon and Uruk: Seleucid Zodiacal Astrology (Monroe)
Content:
Chapter 6. Virtual Moons over Babylonia: The Calendar Text System, Its Micro-Zodiac of 13, and the Making of Medical Zodiology (Wee) -- Chapter 7. On the Concomitancy of the Seemingly Incommensurable, or Why Egyptian Astral Tradition Needs to be Analyzed within Its Cultural Context (Quack) -- Chapter 8. Some Astrologers and Their Handbooks in Demotic Egyptian (Winkler) -- Chapter 9. The Anaphoricus of Hypsicles of Alexandria (Montelle) -- Chapter 10. Interpolated Observations and Historical Observational Records in Ptolemy's Astronomy (Jones)
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Chapter 11. Mesopotamian Lunar Omens in Justinian's Constantinople (Misiewicz) -- Chapter 12. A Parallel Universe: The Transmission of Astronomical Terminology in Early Chinese Almanacs (Harkness) -- Chapter 13. Mercury and the Case for Plural Planetary Traditions in Early Imperial China (Morgan) -- Chapter 14. Calendrical Systems in Early Imperial China: Reform, Evaluation and Tradition (Guan) -- Chapter 15. The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac during the Tang and Song Dynasties: A Set of Signs Which Lost Their Meanings within Chinese Horoscopic Astrology (Song)
Content:
Chapter 16. On the Dunhuang Manuscript P.4071: A Case Study on the Sinicization of Western Horoscope in Late 10th Century China (Niu) -- Chapter 17. Were Planetary Models of Ancient India Strongly Influenced by Greek Astronomy? (Duke) -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Sources
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004315617
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (Veranstaltung : 2014 : Providence, RI) The circulation of astronomical knowledge in the ancient world Leiden : Brill, 2016 ISBN 9789004315617
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Physics
Keywords:
Astronomie
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Fachwissen
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Verbreitung
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Geschichte 1500 v. Chr.-1000
Author information:
Steele, John M.
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