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Studies in premodern sciences in memory of Noel M. Swerdlow : antiquity to the renaissance / Francesca Rochberg, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Archimedes (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; 2215-0064 v. 74.
- Archimedes, 2215-0064 ; volume 74
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--History.
- Science.
- Science, Ancient.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 246 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer, [2026]
- System Details:
- text file PDF
- Contents:
- Part I: Babylonia
- 1 Early Babylonian Astronomy: Observations and Numerical Fits (Lis Brack-Bernsen)
- 2 Neo-Assyrian Investigations into the Prediction of Eclipses (John Steele)
- 3 Babylonian Horoscopy and Genethlialogy (Francesca Rochberg)
- Part II: Greece
- 4 What Plato Meant by Saying That God Is Always Doing Geometry: Responses to the Question Posed by Plutarch in Table-Talk 8.2 (Liba Taub)
- 5 Ptolemy's Almagest and the Philosophical Schools of the Second Century CE: Apuleius of Madaura (Alan C. Bowen)
- Part III: India
- 6 Visual Representations and Intertextualities in Second Millennium Sanskrit Eclipse Reckoning (Clemency Montelle)
- Part IV: Europe
- 7 Levi ben Gerson's Models for the Latitudes of Saturn and Jupiter (Robert Morrison)
- 8 Calculating the Length of Life in Sixteenth-Century Europe: Arabic Astrology and Humanist Reforms (Margaret Gaida)
- 9 Albertus Magnus's First Lunar Model (Betsey Price)
- 10 Historical Chronology before Joseph Scaliger: Jean Bodin and His Discussion Partners (Anthony Grafton)
- 11 Writing "Celestial History" in Early Modern Europe (Florence Hsia).
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 6, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- Print version: Rochberg, Francesca Studies in Premodern Sciences in Memory of Noel M. Swerdlow
- ISBN:
- 9783032040404
- 303204040X
- Publisher Number:
- 90104033636
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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