Essai d'interpretation du zodiaque circulaire de Denerah. Inscribed

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Leprince, H. S. Essai d interprétation du zodiaque circulaire de Denderah. [2], 70pp. Folding plate. Paris: Ponthieu et Delanuai, 1822. 217 x 136 mm. Original plain blue wrappers, small lacuna in lower right corner of the front wrapper. Minor foxing and toning but very good. Small 19th-century library stamps on first and last leaves. Presentation Copy, inscribed on the front wrapper: "A Monsieur [Jean-Baptiste] Cardot, Maire-Adjoint de la ville de Versailles de la part de l auteur." First Edition. An illustrated description of the Dendara Zodiac, an Egyptian bas-relief that originally formed part of the ceiling of a temple dedicated to Osiris in Egypt s Dendera temple complex. The circular sculpture, now in the Louvre, depicts the constellations of the zodiac, some in their familiar Greco-Roman representations and others in a more Egyptian form. It also shows the five planets known to the Egyptians in a configuration identified as having occurred in the summer of 50 BCE, together with depictions of the lunar eclipse of 25 September 52 BCE and the solar eclipse of 7 March 51 BCE. This evidence has enabled modern astrophysicists to date the Dendara Zodiac to between 15 June and 15 August BCE; however, the Zodiac s age was a source of controversy in the 19th century, with estimates ranging from 2500 BCE to 147 CE. . $750-.

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Titel

Essai d'interpretation du zodiaque circulaire de Denerah. Inscribed

Verlag

Paris

Erscheinungsjahr

1822

Einband

Softcover

Auflage

1. Auflage

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