Science Awakening IISpringer 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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H. van der Waerden. Astronomy . Calculation of periods Eudoxos ' Egyptian journey . Geometry The significance of geometry for astronomy . New trends in religion . CHAPTER 2. Old - Babylonian astronomy HAMMURABI AND HIS DYNASTY . The ...
H. van der Waerden. Astronomy . Calculation of periods Eudoxos ' Egyptian journey . Geometry The significance of geometry for astronomy . New trends in religion . CHAPTER 2. Old - Babylonian astronomy HAMMURABI AND HIS DYNASTY . The ...
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... astronomical time units The reports of the astrologers 84 86 88 89 SUMMARY 91 CHAPTER 4. The neo - Babylonian and Persian period 93-126 General review 93 Chronology 94 Chaldaean kings of Babylon · 94 Persian kings . 94 The ...
... astronomical time units The reports of the astrologers 84 86 88 89 SUMMARY 91 CHAPTER 4. The neo - Babylonian and Persian period 93-126 General review 93 Chronology 94 Chaldaean kings of Babylon · 94 Persian kings . 94 The ...
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... astronomy • 183 Observational texts from the 6th Century . 184 The art of soothsaying at the court of the Chaldaean kings 185 DIVINE NAMES OF PLANETS . 186 Greek and Latin names of planets 186 Babylonian names of planets 187 Persian ...
... astronomy • 183 Observational texts from the 6th Century . 184 The art of soothsaying at the court of the Chaldaean kings 185 DIVINE NAMES OF PLANETS . 186 Greek and Latin names of planets 186 Babylonian names of planets 187 Persian ...
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... Babylonian astronomy . CHAPTER 7. Babylonian planetary theory JUPITER SATURN MARS General survey System A The sidereal period of Jupiter . The calculation of the time intervals . From cardinal point to cardinal point System A ' System B ...
... Babylonian astronomy . CHAPTER 7. Babylonian planetary theory JUPITER SATURN MARS General survey System A The sidereal period of Jupiter . The calculation of the time intervals . From cardinal point to cardinal point System A ' System B ...
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... BABYLONIAN PLANETARY THEORIES 281 CHAPTER 8. The spread of Babylonian astronomy EARLY GREEK EVIDENCE The eclipse of Thales Gnomon and division of the hours Numbers and heaven according to the Pythagoreans The zodiac . The names of the ...
... BABYLONIAN PLANETARY THEORIES 281 CHAPTER 8. The spread of Babylonian astronomy EARLY GREEK EVIDENCE The eclipse of Thales Gnomon and division of the hours Numbers and heaven according to the Pythagoreans The zodiac . The names of the ...
Contents
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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 |
205249 | 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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30 days according Ahura Mazda Anâhitâ Assyrian astrology astronomical Avesta Babylon Babylonian Babylonian astronomy BEROSSOS bēru calculated called century B.C. Chaldaeans Chapter Chronos column constellations contains CUMONT cuneiform cuneiform texts daily motion DARIUS decans decreasing degrees difference divine doctrine duration of daylight Egyptian Enlil equinox fixed stars fragment Full Moon Gathas GEMINOS gods Greek heaven Hence HERODOTOS horoscope astrology horoscopes inscription Jupiter kings KUGLER linear zigzag function longitude Magi Marduk Mars maximum means Mercury middle Persian Mithras months mulAPIN names NEUGEBAUER night nodal zone node observations Orphic phenomena planetary planets Plate PLATON position predictions procedure text Pythagoreans reign religion retrograde retrograde motion SACHS Saros Saturn Seleucid Seleucid era sidereal Sirius solstice soul šú synodic months synodic periods theory Tishtrya tithis twins Uruk velocity Venus visible XERXES Yasht Yasna ZARATHUSTRA Zervanism Zeus zodiacal signs Zoroastrian