The circulation of astronomical knowledge in the ancient world / edited by John M. Steele.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Steele, John M., editor.

Series:

Time, astronomy, and calendars ; Volume 6.

Time, Astronomy, and Calendars, 2211-632X ; Volume 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Astronomy, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (595 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Astronomical and astrological knowledge circulated in many ways in the ancient world: in the form of written texts and through oral communication; by the conscious assimilation of sought-after knowledge and the unconscious absorption of ideas to which scholars were exposed. The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World explores the ways in which astronomical knowledge circulated between different communities of scholars over time and space, and what was done with that knowledge when it was received. Examples are discussed from Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Greco-Roman world, India, and China.

Contents:

Front Matter / John M. Steele

Introduction / John M. Steele

The Brown School of the History of Science: Historiography and the Astral Sciences / Francesca Rochberg

Astral Knowledge in an International Age: Transmission of the Cuneiform Tradition, circa 1500–1000 B.C. / Matthew T. Rutz

Traditions of Mesopotamian Celestial-Divinatory Schemes and the 4th Tablet of Šumma Sin ina Tāmartišu / Zackary Wainer

The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge between Babylon and Uruk / John M. Steele

The Micro-Zodiac in Babylon and Uruk: Seleucid Zodiacal Astrology / M. Willis Monroe

Virtual Moons over Babylonia: The Calendar Text System, Its Micro-Zodiac of 13, and the Making of Medical Zodiology / John Z. Wee

On the Concomitancy of the Seemingly Incommensurable, or Why Egyptian Astral Tradition Needs to be Analyzed within Its Cultural Context / Joachim Friedrich Quack

Some Astrologers and Their Handbooks in Demotic Egyptian / Andreas Winkler

The Anaphoricus of Hypsicles of Alexandria / Clemency Montelle

Interpolated Observations and Historical Observational Records in Ptolemy’s Astronomy / Alexander Jones

Mesopotamian Lunar Omens in Justinian’s Constantinople / Zoë Misiewicz

A Parallel Universe: The Transmission of Astronomical Terminology in Early Chinese Almanacs / Ethan Harkness

Mercury and the Case for Plural Planetary Traditions in Early Imperial China / Daniel Patrick Morgan

Calendrical Systems in Early Imperial China: Reform, Evaluation and Tradition / Yuzhen Guan

The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac during the Tang and Song Dynasties: A Set of Signs Which Lost Their Meanings within Chinese Horoscopic Astrology / Shenmi Song

On the Dunhuang Manuscript P.4071: A Case Study on the Sinicization of Western Horoscope in Late 10th Century China / Weixing Niu

Were Planetary Models of Ancient India Strongly Influenced by Greek Astronomy? / Dennis Duke

Indexes / John M. Steele.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-31563-2

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004315631 DOI