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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... called ' Almagest ' . Here purely theoretical interest predominates . The observations used are cited , the theoretical assumptions justified and the calculational rules firmly established . But this same PTOLEMY also wrote an ...
... called ' Almagest ' . Here purely theoretical interest predominates . The observations used are cited , the theoretical assumptions justified and the calculational rules firmly established . But this same PTOLEMY also wrote an ...
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... called the Equator . The angular distance of a star from the equator is called the declina- tion of the star . Southerly declinations are marked by a minus sign . On the modern stellar map opposite the title page the stars are depicted ...
... called the Equator . The angular distance of a star from the equator is called the declina- tion of the star . Southerly declinations are marked by a minus sign . On the modern stellar map opposite the title page the stars are depicted ...
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... called direct motion . The path of the moon is slightly inclined to the ecliptic . The intersections of the path of the moon and the ecliptic are called the lunar nodes . It is only in the neighbourhood of the lunar nodes that eclipses ...
... called direct motion . The path of the moon is slightly inclined to the ecliptic . The intersections of the path of the moon and the ecliptic are called the lunar nodes . It is only in the neighbourhood of the lunar nodes that eclipses ...
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... called the draconitic or dragon month , because the nodes are obviously the habitation of the dragon which swallows the sun or moon at an eclipse . The motion of the moon in its path is not quite uniform : it has an anomaly . The time ...
... called the draconitic or dragon month , because the nodes are obviously the habitation of the dragon which swallows the sun or moon at an eclipse . The motion of the moon in its path is not quite uniform : it has an anomaly . The time ...
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... called the synodic period of the planet . During this period we therefore have the following phenom- ena : MF , MSt , Op , ESt , EL . The planet Venus overtakes the sun at the superior conjunction , appears for the first time as an ...
... called the synodic period of the planet . During this period we therefore have the following phenom- ena : MF , MSt , Op , ESt , EL . The planet Venus overtakes the sun at the superior conjunction , appears for the first time as an ...
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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