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1 online resource (x, 585 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Time, Astronomy, and Calendars: Texts and Studies ; volume 6
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Time, astronomy, and calendars ; v. 6.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
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? |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Astronomy, Ancient.
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Astronomy, Ancient. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Steele, John M., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Circulation of astronomical knowledge in the ancient world. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016 9789004315617 (DLC) 2016006996 (OCoLC)934238904 |
| ISBN |
9789004315631 (electronic book) |
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9004315632 (electronic book) |
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9789004315617 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9004315616 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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