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Conformément aux observations d'Hipparque : le Papyrus Fouad inv. 267A / Jean-Luc Fournet, Anne Tihon ; annex by Raymond Mercier.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fournet, Jean-Luc, author.
- Tihon, Anne, author.
- Series:
- Publications de l'Institut orientaliste de Louvain ; 67.
- Publications de l'Institut orientaliste de Louvain ; 67
- Language:
- English
- French
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Subjects (All):
- Société Fouad I de papyrologie (Cairo, Egypt)--Manuscript--Papyrus Fouad inv. 267A.
- Société Fouad I de papyrologie (Cairo, Egypt).
- Astronomy, Ancient--Early works to 1800.
- Astronomy, Ancient.
- Astronomy, Greek.
- Sun--Observations--Early works to 1800.
- Sun.
- Hipparchus, active 190 B.C.-127 B.C.
- Hipparchus.
- Genre:
- Observations.
- Physical Description:
- 190 pages : illustrations (some color), 2 color facsimiles ; 27 cm.
- Other Title:
- Papyrus Fouad inv. 267 A
- Place of Publication:
- Louvain-la-Neuve : Université catholique de Louvain, Institut orientaliste, 2014.
- Summary:
- "The Papyrus Fouad inv. 267A, a document of exceptional importance for the history of ancient astromony, consists of a fragment of a treatise written in Alexandria around 130 A.D. The preserved part, which occupies the recto and verso of a single folio, deals with the Sun, whose longitude is calculated according to three different years: the sidereal year, the "mean year" of 365 and 1/4 days, and the tropical year."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Première partie. Édition, traduction et notes / par Jean-Luc Fournet et Anne Tihon
- Deuxième partie. Commentaire / par Anne Tihon.
- Notes:
- Includes the Greek text of the manuscript Fouad inv. 267A in two transcriptions (diplomatic and normalized), followed by a French translation.
- Raymond Mercier's Annex (pages 153-175) is in English and has the title: Tables and summary analysis.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-181) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789042930216
- 9042930217
- 9782758402039
- 2758402033
- OCLC:
- 880686532
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