Astronomy and Ancient Calendars

ISBN: 9788882651183
Published by : L'Erma di Bretschneider
Magini argues that the astronomical knowledge of early Rome, as shown in the eclipse festivals of the Numan Calendar (c.715-673 BC), was forgotten by the historic period. This concise study examines the likely Mesopotamian origins of early Roma... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783700130284
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
A large volume of tablets, transliterated by Abraham Sachs and Hermann Hunger, of lunar and planetary information dating from the 8th to 1st century BC. The first part examines tablets relating to the moon, especially eclipse reports, the secon... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781841157252
Published by : Fourth Estate
The story of Galileo's illegitimate daughter Virginia as told through her letters to her adoring father. As marriage was an impossibility, she entered a convent at the age of 13. Her letters span the decade of the Reformation, the Thirty Years ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780860788683
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
These ten essays, published over the last twenty years, consider the classical foundation for the renewed interest in planetary astronomy in the Carolingian and Post-Carolingian period, c.9th to 11th century. Eastwood argues that improvements ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789150616743
Published by : Ocarina Books
Series: Uppsala Astronomical Observatory Report
Volume: 59
This, the proceedings of the 9th annual meeting of SEAC held in Stockholm in 2001, contains twenty-four papers on subjects ranging from Swedish calendar staffs to Ramesside star clocks, and from a possible 32,000-year old calendrical artefact i... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780752425535
Published by : Tempus Publishing Ltd
The Revolution of the Spheres was the culmination of Nicholas Copernicus' life's work and it was to change the science of astronomy forever. Known as the first intellectual to claim that the earth revolved around the sun, this study places Cop... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781841715247
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR Archaeopress
Volume: 1154
The study of astronomy in ancient societies is becoming ever more popular among archaeologists as is reflected in this collection of twelve papers been taken from a session held at the European Association of Archaeologists Eighth Annual Meetin... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780192803061
Published by : Oxford University Press
This is a fascinating introduction to the history of Western astronomy, from prehistoric times to the origins of astrophysics in the mid-nineteenth century. Historical records are first found in Babylon and Egypt, and after two millennia the ar... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780860789499
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
This collection reprints ten essays by Raymond Mercier, plus one other essay published here for the first time, which examine the transmission of Hellenistic science in `Greek, Arabic, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Latin' technical astronomy treatises. The... .... Learn More