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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... stars ASTRONOMICAL INTRODUCTION . The stellar sphere , poles and equator The zodiac . The moon · The phases of the fixed stars and planets . The planets . Historical and astronomical reckoning of years CHAPTER 1. Astronomy in ancient ...
... stars ASTRONOMICAL INTRODUCTION . The stellar sphere , poles and equator The zodiac . The moon · The phases of the fixed stars and planets . The planets . Historical and astronomical reckoning of years CHAPTER 1. Astronomy in ancient ...
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... stars principally because the beauty and sublimity of the starry firmament has so deeply impressed them . This ... fixed stars that move , while the Earth is at rest . We must forget all we know ASTRONOMY IN THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION 3 ...
... stars principally because the beauty and sublimity of the starry firmament has so deeply impressed them . This ... fixed stars that move , while the Earth is at rest . We must forget all we know ASTRONOMY IN THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION 3 ...
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... stars ' rising and setting ' . The fixed stars are considered , as they were by the Greeks , to be located on a spherical surface called the stellar sphere . The sun , moon and planets are projected , from our eye , onto this sphere ...
... stars ' rising and setting ' . The fixed stars are considered , as they were by the Greeks , to be located on a spherical surface called the stellar sphere . The sun , moon and planets are projected , from our eye , onto this sphere ...
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... fixed stars . For example , the star Spica ( a Virginis ) was taken to be at 28 ° or 29 ° of Virgo . We shall return later to this sidereal division of the zodiac . Here I should remark only that the vernal point is not fixed relative to ...
... fixed stars . For example , the star Spica ( a Virginis ) was taken to be at 28 ° or 29 ° of Virgo . We shall return later to this sidereal division of the zodiac . Here I should remark only that the vernal point is not fixed relative to ...
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... fixed stars and planets A star like Sirius , which is not visible the whole year , appears for the first time in the morning sky on a certain day . This appearance is called the morning rising . Thereafter the star appears somewhat ...
... fixed stars and planets A star like Sirius , which is not visible the whole year , appears for the first time in the morning sky on a certain day . This appearance is called the morning rising . Thereafter the star appears somewhat ...
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