The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004315616 ISBN 13 : 9789004315617

Editeur : Brill, 2016

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004315616
• ISBN 13: 9789004315617
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 596
• Éditeur: Steele John M.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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