The Legacy of Mesopotamia (Legacy Series)

This collection explores the spread of culture through literacy from Mesopotamia into Egypt, Palestine and Greece after a system of writing was developed. By gathering evidence from a vast range of material and literary sources from 3000 BC onwards, threads of influence and continuity are traced into the Middle Ages. The effect of recent rediscovery on European art is also explored.

Pingree, David

Dalley, Stephanie

Reyes, A. T.

McCall, Henrietta

Salvesen, Alison

Children's Books

Oxford University Press

This collection explores the spread of culture through literacy from Mesopotamia into Egypt, Palestine and Greece after a system of writing was developed. By gathering evidence from a vast range of material and literary sources from 3000 BC onwards, threads of influence and continuity are traced into the Middle Ages. The effect of recent rediscovery on European art is also explored.

History

Ancient Civilizations

Book by Masha'allah, Kennedy, E.S., Pingree, David

The Astrological History of Masha'allah (Harvard monographs in the history of science)

Science & Math

Masha'allah

Kennedy, E.S.

History & Philosophy

Harvard University Press

The Astrological History of Masha'allah (Harvard Monographs in the History of Science, 5)

Picatrix: the Latin Version of the "Ghayat Al-hakim" (Studies of the Warburg Institute)

Religion & Spirituality

Occult & Paranormal

Warburg Institute

This third fascicle of Babylonian Planetary Omens contains the edition of all cuneiform texts dealing with the planet Venus known to us. Most of these tablets are kept in the British Museum; the large number of unpublished texts were transliterated and the previously published texts were checked and collated from the originals. The texts are accompanied by translations, and each group of texts is commented upon by David Pingree from the point of view of the text history and astronomical significance. A general introduction, also by David Pingree, analyzes the descriptions of Venus that occur in the texts in terms of astronomical phenomena. Indices are included to facilitate the study of this large corpus.

Babylonian Planetary Omens: The Venus Tablet (Bibliotheca Mesopotamica)

Reiner, Erica

Undena Pubns

Babylonian Planetary Omens Part II: Enuma Anu Enlil, Tablet 50-51 (Bibliotheca Mesopotamica) (English, Akkadian and Akkadian Edition)

Undena Publications

This is the only complete catalogue of the nearly four hundred Sanskrit manuscripts contained in the Rare Book Library at Columbia University. The collection is especially strong in works on mathematics and astronomy, assembled by David Eugene Smith (1860-1944), Professor of Mathematics at Teachers College from 1901 to 1926. In addition to scholarly descriptions of the manuscript and the works they contain, the volume has numerous indices covering the persons, places, titles, and dates associated with the manuscripts.Published by American Institute of Buddhist Studies (AIBS)

A Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts at Columbia University (Treasury of the Indic Sciences)

Reference

Catalogs & Directories

American Institute of Buddhist Studies

Eastern astrolabes from the Adler's collection are described in detail with numerous illustrations.

Eastern Astrolabes: Historic Scientific Instruments of the Adler Planetarium (Volume II)

Chandler, Bruce

Arts & Photography

Adler Planetarium, Astronomy

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)

Hunger, Hermann

Brill Academic Pub

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