The circulation of astronomical knowledge in the ancient world /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
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.
Temas:
Astronomy, Ancient.
Astronomie ancienne.
SCIENCE > Astronomy.
Astronomy, Ancient
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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