[PDF.56hn] The Babylonian Theory of the Planets (Princeton Legacy Library)

The Babylonian Theory of the Planets (Princeton Legacy Library)

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 | #4225845 in Books |  N M Swerdlow |  2014-07-14 |  2014-07-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x.60 x5.90l,.83 | File type: PDF | 266 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Essential reading for ancient history|By Kerry V. Magruder|This is the most authoritative and significant single volume available dealing with ancient Near Eastern mathematical astronomy. The mathematics may be difficult in places for non-specialists, but that fact alone confirms Swerdlow's argument that the accomplishments of the ancient scribes were impressive and sophistica

In the second millennium b.c., Babylonian scribes assembled a vast collection of astrological omens, believed to be signs from the gods concerning the kingdom's political, military, and agricultural fortunes. The importance of these omens was such that from the eighth or seventh until the first century, the scribes observed the heavens nightly and recorded the dates and locations of ominous phenomena of the moon and planets in relation to stars and constellations. The...

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