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Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia: (44 Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East)

Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia: (44 Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East)


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Astronomy and astrology, or the astral sciences, played an enormous, if not key role in the political and religious life of the Ancient Near East, and of the Greek and Roman world. This text provides a comprehensive account of the origins of the astral sciences in the Ancient Near East. Every type of Sumerian or Akkadian text dealing with descriptive or mathematical astronomy, including many individual tablets are thoroughly dealt with. It also features descriptions of astronomical contents, an explanation of their scientific meaning, and the place a given genre or tablet has in the development of astronomy both within the Mesopotamian culture and outside of it.

About the Author :
David Pingree, Ph.D. (1960), Harvard University, is Professor of the History of Mathematics at Brown University. He has edited numerous scientific texts in Arabic, Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit, and has collaborated for many years with Assyriologists in publishing cuneiform texts on astronomy and astral omens. Hermann Hunger, Ph.D. (1966) in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, University of Münster (Germany), is Professor of Assyriology at the Institut für Orientalistik of the University of Vienna. He has published widely on Babylonian astronomy, e.g., Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings (Helsinki 1992).

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'The handbook under review is the first reference work on the astral sciences in Mesopotamia to deserve that name…an excellent reference work indispensable to anyone working with astronomical and astrological cuneiform texts. It succeeds in summarizing a hundred and twenty years of research and provides stimulating discussions of many aspects of the texts. The enormous amount of information in this book outweighs the limitations of a conservative choice of methods.' Manual Gerber, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2001. 'This is a real handbook, long awaited by Assyriologists…Those who work daily with cuneiform texts will find here a quick reference for data, units, parameters, problems and information on the state of the art; those who want to proceed to further Assyriological studies will benefit from a clear and competent guide. It is another fine example of scholarship given by Hermann Hunger and David Pingree.' Salvo de Meis, Annals of Science, 2001.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789004101272
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 310
  • Series Title: 44 Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East
  • Weight: 779 gr
  • ISBN-10: 9004101276
  • Publisher Date: 25 Aug 1999
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Width: 155 mm


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