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Astronomical Papyri From Oxyrhynchus
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Book Synopsis Astronomical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus by : Alexander Jones
Download or read book Astronomical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus written by Alexander Jones and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1999 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents 200 hitherto unpub. astronomical texts & horoscopes written in Greek on papyrus, which were excavated a century ago in the rubbish heaps of Oxyrhynchus, a district capital of Roman Egypt. Through these documents we obtain the first coherent picture of the range of astronomical activity, chiefly in the service of astrology, during the Roman Empire. The astronomy of this period turns out to have been much more varied than we previously thought, with Babylonian arithmetical methods of prediction coexisting with tables based on geometrical models of orbits. Editions of the texts are accomp. by facing translations & explanatory & philological commentaries. The intro. provides the first comprehensive treatment of astronomical papyri, explaining their contents & purpose, the underlying astronomical theories, & strategies for analyzing & dating them. Tables & graphs.
Book Synopsis The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Vol. 12 by : Bernard P. Grenfell
Download or read book The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Vol. 12 written by Bernard P. Grenfell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-24 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Vol. 12: Edited With Translations and Notes As we announced in the preface of Part XI, which consisted of literary papyri, the present volume contains official and private docu ments. Most of these, including all those in the two most important sections (i E diets andcz'reu/arleflersflnd ii T fie Senate of Oxyrkymfius), illustrate the period from Septimius Severus to Constantine; the others belong to the earlier period of Roman domination in Egypt. With a few exceptions, the 189 texts were discovered in 1904 - 6. The decipherment and translation of them had in the main been effected by June, 1915 since then Prof. Hunt's military duties have generally kept him away from Oxford, and the commentary unfortunately lacks his accustomed Share in its composition; but he has made many suggestions upon the proofs. These have also been read by Mr. J. G. Milne, to whom we are indebted for some valuable criticisms on points of numis matics. Dr. J. K. Fotheringham kindly undertook on our behalf some interesting astronomical calculations in connexion with the chronology of the Emperors from Decius to Diocletian, upon which obscure subject the new horoscopes throw considerable light cf. Pp. 229 sqq. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 32, Part 2, 1942) by :
Download or read book Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 32, Part 2, 1942) written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Oxyrhynchus Papyri by : Egypt Exploration Society
Download or read book The Oxyrhynchus Papyri written by Egypt Exploration Society and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papyri nos 1224-1350. (Egypt Exploration Society, Graeco-Roman Papyri 13, 1914)
Book Synopsis The Oxyrhynchus Papyri: Texts (CCVIII-CCCC) by : Bernard Pyne Grenfell
Download or read book The Oxyrhynchus Papyri: Texts (CCVIII-CCCC) written by Bernard Pyne Grenfell and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Oxyrhynchus Papyri: Texts (I-CCVII) by : Bernard Pyne Grenfell
Download or read book The Oxyrhynchus Papyri: Texts (I-CCVII) written by Bernard Pyne Grenfell and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Oxyrhynchus Papyri by : Bernard Pyne Grenfell
Download or read book The Oxyrhynchus Papyri written by Bernard Pyne Grenfell and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Egyptian Planetary Texts ... On Some Astronomical Papyri and Related Problems of Ancient Geography by : Otto Neugebauer
Download or read book Egyptian Planetary Texts ... On Some Astronomical Papyri and Related Problems of Ancient Geography written by Otto Neugebauer and published by American Philosophical Society Press. This book was released on 1942 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication. 27 plates.
Book Synopsis The Oxyrhynchus Papyri: Texts (1166-1223) by : Bernard Pyne Grenfell
Download or read book The Oxyrhynchus Papyri: Texts (1166-1223) written by Bernard Pyne Grenfell and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis On Some Astronomical Papyri and Related Problems of Ancient Geography by : Otto Neugebauer
Download or read book On Some Astronomical Papyri and Related Problems of Ancient Geography written by Otto Neugebauer and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Between Greece and Babylonia by : Kathryn Stevens
Download or read book Between Greece and Babylonia written by Kathryn Stevens and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on Greece and Babylonia, this book provides a new, cross-cultural approach to the intellectual history of the Hellenistic world.
Book Synopsis In the Path of the Moon by : Francesca Rochberg
Download or read book In the Path of the Moon written by Francesca Rochberg and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Path of the Moon offers a collection of essays concerning Babylonian celestial divination. It investigates various aspects of cuneiform celestial omens, horoscopes, and astronomy and their wide-ranging influences on later Hellenistic science and philosophy.
Book Synopsis The Star of Bethlehem and the Magi by : George H. van Kooten
Download or read book The Star of Bethlehem and the Magi written by George H. van Kooten and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the fruit of the first ever interdisciplinary international scientific conference on Matthew's story of the Star of Bethlehem and the Magi, held in 2014 at the University of Groningen, and attended by world-leading specialists in all relevant fields: modern astronomy, the ancient near-eastern and Greco-Roman worlds, the history of science, and religion. The scholarly discussions and the exchange of the interdisciplinary views proved to be immensely fruitful and resulted in the present book. Its twenty chapters describe the various aspects of The Star: the history of its interpretation, ancient near-eastern astronomy and astrology and the Magi, astrology in the Greco-Roman and the Jewish worlds, and the early Christian world – at a generally accessible level. An epilogue summarizes the fact-fiction balance of the most famous star which has ever shone.
Book Synopsis Astronomy and Calendars – The Other Chinese Mathematics by : Jean-Claude Martzloff
Download or read book Astronomy and Calendars – The Other Chinese Mathematics written by Jean-Claude Martzloff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented from the viewpoint of the history of mathematics, this book explores both epistemological aspects of Chinese traditional mathematical astronomy and lunisolar calendrical calculations. The following issues are addressed: (1) connections with non-Chinese cultural areas; (2) the possibility or impossibility of using mathematics to predict astronomical phenomena, a question that was constantly raised by the Chinese from antiquity through medieval times; (3) the modes of representation of numbers, and in particular the zero, found in the context of Chinese calendrical calculations; and (4) a detailed analysis of lunisolar calendrical calculations. Fully worked-out examples and comparisons between the results of calculations and the content of Chinese historical calendars from various periods are provided. Traditional Chinese calendrical and mathematical astronomy consists of permanently reformed mathematical procedures designed to predict, but not explain, phenomena pertaining to astronomy and related areas. Yet, despite appearances, models of the mathematical techniques hidden behind this voluminous corpus reveal that they depend on a limited number of clear-cut mathematical structures. Although only a small fraction of these techniques have been fully studied, what is known surprisingly broadens our knowledge of the history of Chinese mathematics. Sinologists interested in the history of Chinese science, and anyone interested in the history of Chinese mathematics, the Chinese calendar, and the history of Chinese mathematical astronomy from its origin (104 BC) to its European reform (AD 1644) will find this book very useful. The present English language edition is a fully revised and updated version of the French original. Even though this is a research monograph in sinology, no particular sinological background is required, although a basic understanding of ‘concrete mathematics’ is needed. From the reviews of the French edition: This is a demanding, rigorous book to read ... worth the concentrated study it requires. The rewards are not only in the details but in the general overview that ...[it] provides. Joseph Dauben, EASTM, 2011 ...first Work in a Western language to turn to for anyone interested in the details of Chinese calendrical computations. Benno Van Dalen, ISIS, 2011 Martzloff’s careful scholarship and his overall look at the calendar beyond astronomical calculations, ..., make this book a most valuable contributions to a field of increasing interest. U. D’Ambrosio, Mathematical Reviews, 2013
Book Synopsis The Future in Greek by : Theodore Markopoulos
Download or read book The Future in Greek written by Theodore Markopoulos and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The future has attracted the interest of almost all scholars working on the history of Greek, but no satisfactory set of arguments for the developments prior to the emergence of the modern form has ever been produced. In this book Theodore Markopoulos explores and elucidates the stages that led up to the appearance of the modern future in the sixteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology by : Roger S. Bagnall
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology written by Roger S. Bagnall and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of documentary and literary texts written on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, and Persian, have transformed our knowledge of many aspects of life in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. Here experts provide a comprehensive guide to understanding this ancient documentary evidence.
Book Synopsis Zodiac Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Their Reception by : Helen R. Jacobus
Download or read book Zodiac Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Their Reception written by Helen R. Jacobus and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient mathematical basis of the Aramaic calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls is analysed in this investigation. Helen R. Jacobus re-examines an Aramaic zodiac calendar with a thunder divination text (4Q318) and the calendar from the Aramaic Astronomical Book (4Q208 - 4Q209), all from Qumran. Jacobus demonstrates that 4Q318 is an ancestor of the Jewish calendar today and that it helps us to understand 4Q208 - 4Q209. She argues that these calendars were taught in antiquity as angelic knowledge described in 1 Enoch and the Book of Jubilees. The study also encompasses Babylonian, Hellenistic, Byzantine astronomy and astrology, and classical and Jewish writings. Finally, a medieval Hebrew zodiac calendar related to 4Q318 with an astrological text is published here for the first time.
