Astronomy and History Selected Essays
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Astronomy and History Selected Essays
ISBN:
9781461255598
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Edition:
1st ed. 1983.
Yayın Bilgileri:
New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 1983.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
XII, 539 p. 4 illus. online resource.
Contents:
I. General -- [1] The Study of Wretched Subjects (1951) -- [2] Some Fundamental Concepts in Ancient Astronomy (1941) -- [3] Exact Science in Antiquity (1941) -- [4] The History of Ancient Astronomy: Problems and Methods (1946) -- [5] Mathematical Methods in Ancient Astronomy (1948) -- [6] The Transmission of Planetary Theories in Ancient and Medieval Astronomy (1956) -- [7] The Survival of Babylonian Methods in the Exact Sciences of Antiquity and Middle Ages (1963) -- [8] Zur Transkription mathematischer und astronomischer Keilschrifttexte (1932) -- 2. Egyptian -- [9] Die Bedeutungslosigkeit der "Sothisperiode" für die älteste ägyptische Chronologie (1938) -- [10] The Origin of the Egyptian Calendar (1942) -- [11] The Egyptian "Decans" (1955) -- [12] On the Orientation of Pyramids (1980) -- 3. Babylonian -- [13] Über eine Untersuchungsmethode astronomischer Keilschrifttexte (1936) -- [14] Studies in Ancient Astronomy. VII. Magnitudes of Lunar Eclipses in Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy (1945) -- [15] Studies in Ancient Astronomy. VIII. The Water Clock in Babylonian Astronomy (1947) -- [16] The Alleged Babylonian Discovery of the Precession of the Equinoxes (1950) -- [17] Problems and Methods in Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy, Henry Norris Russell Lecture, 1967 (1967) -- [18] The Origin of "System B" of Babylonian Astronomy (1968) -- 4. Greco-Roman -- [19] On Two Astronomical Passages in Plutarch's De animae procreatione in Timaeo (1942) -- [20] The Early History of the Astrolabe. Studies in Ancient Astronomy IX (1949) -- [21] The Astronomical Origin of the Theory of Conic Sections (1948) -- [22] Astronomical Fragments in Galen's On Seven-Month Children (1949) -- [23] The Horoscope of Ceionius Rufius Albinus (1953) -- [24] On the "Hippopede" of Eudoxus (1953) -- [25] Apollonius' Planetary Theory (1955) -- [26] Notes on Hipparchus (1956) -- [27] Ptolemy's Geography, Book VII, Chapters 6 and 7 (1959) -- [28] The Equivalence of Eccentric and Epicyclic Motion According to Apollonius (1959) -- [29] Melothesia and Dodecatemoria (1959) -- [30] Decem Tulerunt Fastidia Menses (1963) -- [31] On Some Aspects of Early Greek Astronomy (1972) -- [32] On the Allegedly Heliocentric Theory of Venus by Heraclides Ponticus (1972) -- [33] A Greek World Map (1975) -- 5. Medieval-Renaissance -- [34] The Astronomy of Maimonides and Its Sources (1949) -- [35] Hindu Astronomy at Newminster in 1428 (with O. Schmidt) (1952) -- [36] Tamil Astronomy: A Study in the History of Astronomy in India (1952) -- [37] Regula Philippi Arrhidaei (1959) -- [38] Notes on Kepler (1961 & 1975) -- [39] Notes on Ethiopic Astronomy (1964) -- [40] On the Planetary Theory of Copernicus (1968) -- [41] Astronomical and Calendrical Data in the Très Riches Heures (1974) -- [42] Tentyon (1975) -- [43] Ethiopic Easter Computus (1979).
Abstract:
The collection of papers assembled here on a variety of topics in ancient and medieval astronomy was originally suggested by Noel Swerdlow of the University of Chicago. He was also instrumental in making a selection* which would, in general, be on the same level as my book The Exact Sciences in Antiquity. It may also provide a general background for my more technical History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy and for my edition of Astronomi cal Cuneiform Texts. Several of these republished articles were written because I wanted to put to rest well-entrenched historical myths which could not withstand close scrutiny of the sources. Examples are the supposed astronomical origin of the Egyptian calendar (see [9]), the discovery of precession by the Babylonians [16], and the "simplification" of the Ptolemaic system in Copernicus' De Revolutionibus [40]. In all of my work I have striven to present as accurately as I could what the original sources reveal (which is often very different from the received view). Thus, in [32] discussion of the technical terminology illuminates the meaning of an ancient passage which has been frequently misused to support modern theories about ancient heliocentrism; in [33] an almost isolated instance reveals how Greek world-maps really looked; and in [43] the Alexandrian Easter computus, held in awe by many historians, is shown from Ethiopic sources to be based on very simple procedures.
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