Astronomy and History Selected Essays
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 Anti...
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New York, NY
Springer New York
1983, 1983
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Table of Contents:
- [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)
- 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)
- [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)