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Ancient astronomy and celestial divination
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Ancient astronomy and celestial divination

Author: N M Swerdlow
Publisher: Cambridge, Ma. : MIT Press, 1999.
Series: Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: N M Swerdlow
ISBN: 0262194228 9780262194228
OCLC Number: 41142931
Description: x, 378 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction / N.M. Swerdlow -- Babylonian celestial divination / Erica Reiner -- Babylonian horoscopy : the texts and their relations / F. Rochberg -- Babylonian observations of Saturn during the reign of Kandalanu / C.B.F. Walker -- Non-mathematical astronomical texts and their relationships / Hermann Hunger -- Normal star observations in late Babylonian astronomical diaries / Gerd Grasshoff -- Goal-year tablets : lunar data and predictions / Lis Brack-Bernsen -- A new mathematical text from the astronomical archive in Babylon : BM 36849 -- Lunar anomaly in Babylonian astronomy : portrait of an original theory / John P. Britton -- The derivation of the parameters of Babylonian planetary theory with time as the principal independent variable / N.M. Swerdlow -- A classification of astronomical tables on papyrus / Alexander Jones -- The role of observation in Ptolemy's lunar theories / Bernard R. Goldstein and Alan C. Bowen -- Theon of Alexandria and Ptolemy's Handy tables / Anne Tihon.
Series Title: Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology
Responsibility: edited by N.M. Swerdlow.

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