Babylonian Astronomical Compendium Mul.apin

Zusatztext "MUL.APIN is the earliest surviving general work on astronomy in which a wide range of theoretical and practical information relating to the Sun! Moon! stars! and planets is presented. Hermann Hunger and John Steele have done us all an immense service in providing this up-to-date edition and accessible! yet accurate translation of a document of central importance for our understanding of the history of Mesopotamian astronomy! and more broadly of all pre-telescopic astronomy."- Alexander Jones! Institute for the Study of the Ancient World! New York University! USA Informationen zum Autor Hermann Hunger is Emeritus Professor of Assyriology at the University of Vienna, Austria. John Steele is Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity in the Department of Egyptology and Assyriology at Brown University, USA. Klappentext About the MUL.APIN: astronomical data and lists of stars! from ancient Mesopotamia. Zusammenfassung This book contains an introductory essay, followed by a new edition of the text and a facing-page transliteration and English translation. Finally, the book contains a new and detailed commentary on the text. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Edition; Table of sources; Description of sources; Concordance of museum numbers; Concordance of previously published tablets; Tablet I; Table II; Colophons; Philological Notes; Composite Text and Translation; Commentary; Plates; Bibliography; Indices; Index of words and names; Subject index

Product details

• Authors: Hunger, Hermann Hunger, Hermann Steele Hunger, Hunger Hermann, John Steele, John (Brown University Steele
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781138050471
• ISBN: 978-1-138-05047-1
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Scientific Writings from the Ancient and Medieval World; Scientific Writings from the Ancient and Medieval World
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); HISTORY / Ancient / General, History of Science, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Galaxies & stars, Galaxies and stars, Babylonia