Steele, John M. (Editor)
Brill
Publication date: 2016
Language: English
Physical Details: x, 586 pp.
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.
...MoreReview Jacqueline Feke (2018) Review of "The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World". Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science (pp. 115-118).
Review Mathieu Ossendrijver (2018) Review of "The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World". Journal for the History of Astronomy (pp. 125-129).
Chapter Joachim Friedrich Quack (2016) On the Concomitancy of the Seemingly Incommensurable, or Why Egyptian Astral Tradition Needs to be Analyzed within Its Cultural Context. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 230-244).
Chapter Dennis Duke (2016) Were Planetary Models of Ancient India Strongly Influenced by Greek Astronomy?. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 559-575).
Chapter Weixing Niu (2016) On the Dunhuang Manuscript P.4071: A Case Study on the Sinicization of Western Horoscope in Late 10th Century China. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 527-558).
Chapter Zoë Misiewicz (2016) Mesopotamian Lunar Omens in Justinian’s Constantinople. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 350-395).
Chapter Andreas Winkler (2016) Some Astrologers and Their Handbooks in Demotic Egyptian. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 245-286).
Chapter Daniel Patrick Morgan (2016) Mercury and the Case for Plural Planetary Traditions in Early Imperial China. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 416-450).
Chapter Ethan Harkness (2016) A Parallel Universe: The Transmission of Astronomical Terminology in Early Chinese Almanacs. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 396-415).
Chapter Zackary Wainer (2016) Traditions of Mesopotamian Celestial-Divinatory Schemes and the 4th Tablet of Šumma Sin ina Tāmartišu. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 55-82).
Chapter Matthew T. Rutz (2016) Astral Knowledge in an International Age: Transmission of the Cuneiform Tradition, ca. 1500–1000 B.C.. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 18-54).
Chapter Alexander Jones (2016) Interpolated Observations and Historical Observational Records in Ptolemy’s Astronomy. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 316-349).
Chapter John Z. Wee (2016) Virtual Moons over Babylonia: The Calendar Text System, Its Micro-Zodiac of 13, and the Making of Medical Zodiology. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 139-229).
Chapter Yuzhen Guan (2016) Calendrical Systems in Early Imperial China: Reform, Evaluation and Tradition. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 451-477).
Chapter Francesca Rochberg (2016) The Brown School of the History of Science: Historiography and the Astral Sciences. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 5-17).
Chapter M. Willis Monroe (2016) The Micro-Zodiac in Babylon and Uruk: Seleucid Zodiacal Astrology. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 119-138).
Chapter Shenmi Song (2016) The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac during the Tang and Song Dynasties: A Set of Signs Which Lost Their Meanings within Chinese Horoscopic Astrology. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 478-526).
Chapter Clemency Montelle (2016) The Anaphoricus of Hypsicles of Alexandria. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 287-315).
Chapter John M. Steele (2016) The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge between Babylon and Uruk. In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (pp. 83-118).
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