The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World

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.

About the author

John Steele, PhD (1998), is Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity in the Department of Egyptology and Assyriology at Brown University. He is the author of A Brief Introduction to Astronomy in the Middle East (Saqi Books 2008), and Ancient Astronomical Observations and the Study of the Moon's Motion (1691-1757) (Springer 2012), as well as the editor of several volumes including Calendars and Years: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient Near East (Oxbow Books 2007).

Contributors are: Dennis Duke, Yuzhen Guan, Ethan Harkness, Alexander Jones, Zoë Misiewicz, M. Willis Monroe, Clemency Montelle, Daniel Patrick Morgan, Weixing Niu, Joachim Friedrich Quack, Francesca Rochberg, Matthew T. Rutz, Shenmi Song, John M. Steele, Zackary Wainer, John Z. Wee, Andreas Winkler.

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.05.2016
• EAN: 9789004315617
• ISBN: 978-90-04-31561-7
• No. of pages: 596
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 246 mm x 37 mm
• Weight: 935 g
• Series: Time, Astronomy, and Calendars
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy