Verlag: MIT Press, Cambridge & London, 1999
ISBN 10: 0262194228 ISBN 13: 9780262194228
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: Archiv Fuenfgiebelhaus, Rostock, Deutschland
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. X + 378 pages, orig. hardcover, fine. - - Contents: Preface. - Bibliographical and Other Standard. - Introduction. - - Erica Reiner: Babylonian Celestial Divination. - - Francesca Rochberg: Babylonian Horoscopy: The Texts and Their Relations. - - Christopher B. F. Walker: Babylonian Observations of Saturn during the Reign of Kandalanu. - - Hermann Hunger: Non-mathematical Astronomical Texts and Their Relationships. - - Gerd Graßhoff: Normal Star Observations in Late Babylonian Astronomical Diaries. - - Lis Brack-Bernsen: Goal-Year Tablets: Lunar Data and Predictions. - - Asger Aaboe: A New Mathematical Text from the Astronomical Archive in Babylon: BM 36849. - - John P. Britton: Lunar Anomaly in Babylonian Astronomy: Portrait of an Original Theory. - - N. M. Swerdlow: The Derivation of the Parameters of Babylonian Planetary Theory with Time as the Principal Independent Variable. - - Alexander Jones: A Classification of Astronomical Tables on Papyrus. - - Bernard R. Goldstein & Alan C. Bowen: The Role of Observations in Ptolemys Lunar Theories. - - Anne Tihon: Theon of Alexandria and Ptolemys Handy Tables.