A Neo-Babylonian Astronomical Treatise in the British Museum
Title | A Neo-Babylonian Astronomical Treatise in the British Museum PDF eBook |
Author | Leonard William King |
Publisher | |
Pages | 22 |
Release | 1913 |
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Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology
Title | Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology PDF eBook |
Author | Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 414 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | Bible |
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Astronomy and History Selected Essays
Title | Astronomy and History Selected Essays PDF eBook |
Author | O. Neugebauer |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 522 |
Release | 2013-11-11 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1461255597 |
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 Antiquity. It may also provide a general background for my more technical History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy and for my edition of Astronomi cal Cuneiform Texts. Several of these republished articles were written because I wanted to put to rest well-entrenched historical myths which could not withstand close scrutiny of the sources. Examples are the supposed astronomical origin of the Egyptian calendar (see [9]), the discovery of precession by the Babylonians [16], and the "simplification" of the Ptolemaic system in Copernicus' De Revolutionibus [40]. In all of my work I have striven to present as accurately as I could what the original sources reveal (which is often very different from the received view). Thus, in [32] discussion of the technical terminology illuminates the meaning of an ancient passage which has been frequently misused to support modern theories about ancient heliocentrism; in [33] an almost isolated instance reveals how Greek world-maps really looked; and in [43] the Alexandrian Easter computus, held in awe by many historians, is shown from Ethiopic sources to be based on very simple procedures.
A History of Babylonia and Assyria
Title | A History of Babylonia and Assyria PDF eBook |
Author | Leonard William King |
Publisher | |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 1915 |
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A History of Babylon from the Foundation of the Monarchy to the Persian Conquest
Title | A History of Babylon from the Foundation of the Monarchy to the Persian Conquest PDF eBook |
Author | Leonard William King |
Publisher | |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | Babylon (Extinct city) |
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American Journal of Archaeology
Title | American Journal of Archaeology PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 612 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | Archaeology |
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A History of Babilonia
Title | A History of Babilonia PDF eBook |
Author | Leonard W. King |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2020-08-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3752407794 |
Reproduction of the original: A History of Babilonia by Leonard W. King