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The circulation of astronomical knowledge in the ancient world /

Astronomical and astrological knowledge circulated in many ways in the ancient world: in the form of written texts and through oral communication; by the conscious assimilation of sought-after knowledge and the unconscious absorption of ideas to which scholars were exposed. The Circulation of Astron...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Steele, John M. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Colección:Time, astronomy, and calendars ; v. 6.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction -- 1. The Brown school of the history of science: Historiography and the Astral sciences -- 2. Astral knowledge in an international age: Transmission of the Cuneiform tradition, ca. 1500-1000 b.c. -- 3. Traditions of Mesopotamian celestial-divinatory schemes and the 4th tablet of Šumma Sin ina Tāmartišu -- 4. The circulation of astonomical knowledge between Babylon and Uruk -- 5. The micro-zodiac in Babylon and Uruk: Seleucid zodiacal astrology -- 6. Virtual moons over Babylonia: The calendar text system, its micro-zodiac of 13, and the making of medical zodiology -- 7. On the concomitancy of the seemingly incommensurable, or why Egyptian astral tradition needs to be analyzed within its cultural context -- 8. Some astrologers and their handbooks in Demotic Egyptian -- 9. The anaphoricus of Hypsicles of Alexandria -- 10. Interpolated observations and historical observational records in Ptolemy's astronomy -- 11. Mesopotamian lunar Omens in Justinian's Constantinople -- 12. A parallel universe: The transmission of astronomical terminology in early Chinese almanacs -- 13. Mercury and the case for plural planetary traditions in early imperial China -- 14. Calendrial systems in early imperical China -- 14. Calendrical systems in early imperical China: reform, evaluation and tradition -- 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 -- 16. On the Dunhuang manuscript p.4071: a case study on the Sinicization of Western horoscope in late 10th century China -- 17. Were planetary models of ancient India strongly influenced by Greek astronomy? 
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