Science Awakening II

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Springer Science & Business Media, 2013 M11 11 - 347 pages
Whoever wants to understand the genesis of modern Science has to follow three lines of development, all starting in antiquity, which were brought together in the work of ISAAC NEWTON, namely 1. Ancient Mathematics => DESCARTES 2. Ancient Astronomy => COPERNICUS : ~~~~ I=> NEWTON 3. Ancient Mechanics => GALILEO => HUYGENS In Science Awakening I (Dutch edition 1950, first Eng1ish edition 1954, second 1961, first German edition 1956, second 1965) I have followed the first 1ine, giving an outline of the development of Mathematics in Egypt, Babylonia, and Greece. Volume II, dealing with Egyptian and Baby1onian Astronomy first appeared in German under the title 'Die Anfänge der Astronomie' (Noordhoff, Groningen 1965 and Birkhäu ser, Basel 1968). The volume was written in collaboration with PETER HUBER (Swiss Federal School of Technology, Zürich). HUBER has written considerable parts of Chap ters 3 and 4, in particular all transcriptions of cuneiform texts in these chapters. I also had much help from ERNST WEIDNER (Graz), MARTIN VERMASEREN (Amsterdam), JOSEF JANSEN (Leiden) and MANU LEUMANN (Zürich).

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Contents

Astronomy in ancient Egypt
8
THE LATE EGYPTIAN PERIOD
32
OldBabylonian astronomy
46
The Year of the golden throne
52
Astral religion and astrology
59
SUMMARY
91
CALCULATION OF PERIODS
102
PREDICTION OF ECLIPSES
115
A high point of Babylonian astronomy
248
845
255
An arithmetical series of the third order
261
The spread of Babylonian astronomy
284
The rising and setting of the moon
291
SANSKRIT TEXTS
299
On the origin of the VâsishthaSiddhânta
305
EGYPTIAN PLANETARY TABLES
308

THE ZODIAC
122
Cosmic religion astrology and astronomy
127
The Gathas of the Avesta
133
IMMORTALITY AND TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS
142
THE CULT OF MITHRAS AND SOLAR THEOLOGY
150
ZERVANISM AND ASTRAL FATALISM
161
Inscriptions of Xerxes
201
Calculation of Columns K L and M
225
The Crescent Table ACT 122
235
Columns K L and M
241
ABBREVIATIONS 327
326
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331
6092
332
The dating of primitive zodiacal astrology
333
104
335
Hilprechts text HS 229
339
115
341
The three paths in the
346
PLATES
347
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