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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... Greek ideas about the soul . Heaven as the Home of Souls . THE CULT OF MITHRAS AND SOLAR THEOLOGY . Mithras as Sun - god . The spread of the Mithras cult The three worlds of Julianus ' The sun as highest god . ZERVANISM AND ASTRAL ...
... Greek ideas about the soul . Heaven as the Home of Souls . THE CULT OF MITHRAS AND SOLAR THEOLOGY . Mithras as Sun - god . The spread of the Mithras cult The three worlds of Julianus ' The sun as highest god . ZERVANISM AND ASTRAL ...
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... Greek and Latin names of planets 186 Babylonian names of planets 187 Persian names of planets . 188 The sun · The moon Mars Jupiter Venus . 189 189 189 191 192 Mercury and Sirius Saturn . 193 194 Two systems of gods THE INSCRIPTIONS OF ...
... Greek and Latin names of planets 186 Babylonian names of planets 187 Persian names of planets . 188 The sun · The moon Mars Jupiter Venus . 189 189 189 191 192 Mercury and Sirius Saturn . 193 194 Two systems of gods THE INSCRIPTIONS OF ...
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... 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 signs . Observations and periods Sidereal and tropical divisions of the zodiac The ...
... 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 signs . Observations and periods Sidereal and tropical divisions of the zodiac The ...
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... Greeks , far more than physics , chemistry and technology . This , and indeed the fact that man studies astronomy at all ... Greek astronomer PTOLEMY , written about 140 A.D. , the INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION The role of astronomy in the ...
... Greeks , far more than physics , chemistry and technology . This , and indeed the fact that man studies astronomy at all ... Greek astronomer PTOLEMY , written about 140 A.D. , the INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION The role of astronomy in the ...
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... Greek astronomy was already highly developed at the time around 300 B.C. when BEROSSOS , a priest of the Babylonian god Bel , founded the first Greek school of astrology on the island of Kos . Seventy years earlier EUDOXOS had made ...
... Greek astronomy was already highly developed at the time around 300 B.C. when BEROSSOS , a priest of the Babylonian god Bel , founded the first Greek school of astrology on the island of Kos . Seventy years earlier EUDOXOS had made ...
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