The Babylonian Astronomical Compendium MUL.APIN (Scientific Writings from the Ancient and Medieval World)

MUL.APIN, written sometime before the 8th century BC, was the most widely copied astronomical text in ancient Mesopotamia: a compendium including information such as star lists, descriptions of planetary phases, mathematical schemes for the length of day and night, a discussion of the luni-solar calendar and rules for intercalation, and a short collection of celestial omens. 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. This is a fascinating study, and an important resource for anyone interested in the history of astronomy.

History

Hunger, Hermann

Ancient Civilizations

Routledge

MUL.APIN, written sometime before the 8th century BC, was the most widely copied astronomical text in ancient Mesopotamia: a compendium including information such as star lists, descriptions of planetary phases, mathematical schemes for the length of day and night, a discussion of the luni-solar calendar and rules for intercalation, and a short collection of celestial omens. 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. This is a fascinating study, and an important resource for anyone interested in the history of astronomy.

STEELE, JOHN

Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings (State Archives of Assyria)

Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project

This volume contains an edition of clay tablets written during the time from the 3rd century BC to the 1st century AD. They list astronomical phenomena for a given year in chronological sequence, like a calendar. All data are calculated in advance. They are: first and last appearances of the moon and planets, with day number and zodiacal sign; solstices and equinoxes and phenomena of Sirius. For the outer planets, stations and acronychal risings are given. Furthermore the entrances of planets into zodiacal signs are listed. In some of the tablets, the conjunctions of planets with fixed stars are predicted. The predictions were most likely done with the help of Goal-Year Texts, which were edited in volume VI.

Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia: Diaries from 164 B.C. to 61 B.C. (Denkschriften Der Philosophisch-Historischen Klasse)

Sachs, Abraham J

Austrian Academy of Sciences Press

A large volume of tablets, transliterated by Abraham Sachs and Hermann Hunger, of lunar and planetary information dating from the 8th to 1st century BC. The first part examines tablets relating to the moon, especially eclipse reports, the second to the planets and the recurrence of astronomical phenomena. An appendix contains a list of eclipse dates.

Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia (Osterreichische Akademie Der Wissenschaften Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschfiften)

This volume contains an edition of clay tablets written during the time from the 3rd century BC to the 1st century AD. They list astronomical phenomena for a given year in chronological sequence, like a calendar. All data are calculated in advance. They are: first and last appearances of the moon and planets, with day number and zodiacal sign; solstices and equinoxes and phenomena of Sirius. For the outer planets, stations and acronychal risings are given. Furthermore the entrances of planets into zodiacal signs are listed. In some of the tablets, the conjunctions of planets with fixed stars are predicted. The predictions were most likely done with the help of Goal-Year Texts, which were edited in volume VI.

Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia: Volume VII. Almanacs and Normal Star Almanacs (Denkschriften Der Philosophisch-Historischen Klasse)

Astronomy and astrology, or the astral sciences, played an enormous, if not a key role in the political and religious life of the Ancient Near East, and, later, of the Greek and Roman world. This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date 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. All aspects, such as the history of discovery, reconstruction, and interpretation come to the fore, accompanied by a full bibliography. At that the reader will find 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. Because celestial omens are intimately related to astronomy in Mesopotamian science, these are also discussed extensively. The material is arranged both chronologically and thematically, so as to help make Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia a reference work on the subject in its truest sense.

Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia (HANDBOOK OF ORIENTAL STUDIES/HANDBUCH DER ORIENTALISTIK)

Pingree, David

Brill Academic Pub

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The Babylonian Astronomical Compendium MUL.APIN (Scientific Writings from the Ancient and Medieval World)

The Babylonian Astronomical Compendium MUL.APIN (Scientific Writings from the Ancient and Medieval World)

Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings (State Archives of Assyria)

Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia: Diaries from 164 B.C. to 61 B.C. (Denkschriften Der Philosophisch-Historischen Klasse)

Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia (Osterreichische Akademie Der Wissenschaften Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschfiften)

Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia: Volume VII. Almanacs and Normal Star Almanacs (Denkschriften Der Philosophisch-Historischen Klasse)

Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia (HANDBOOK OF ORIENTAL STUDIES/HANDBUCH DER ORIENTALISTIK)