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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Page 6
... morning rising . Thereafter the star appears somewhat earlier every night until it rises just after dusk at the beginning of the night . This is the evening rising . When the star sets at the end of the night , it is the morning setting ...
... morning rising . Thereafter the star appears somewhat earlier every night until it rises just after dusk at the beginning of the night . This is the evening rising . When the star sets at the end of the night , it is the morning setting ...
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... morning sky . This is called the heliacal rising of Sirius . A more convenient expression , which we shall adopt , is morning rising or morningfirst ( MF ) . In ancient Egypt this occurred on or around the 20th of July ( Julian Calendar ) ...
... morning sky . This is called the heliacal rising of Sirius . A more convenient expression , which we shall adopt , is morning rising or morningfirst ( MF ) . In ancient Egypt this occurred on or around the 20th of July ( Julian Calendar ) ...
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... morning rising of Sirius , which took place a few weeks earlier . There are texts from the Middle and New Kingdoms , in which the morning rising of Sirius is designated as the ' beginning of the year ' . Scholars differ in their ...
... morning rising of Sirius , which took place a few weeks earlier . There are texts from the Middle and New Kingdoms , in which the morning rising of Sirius is designated as the ' beginning of the year ' . Scholars differ in their ...
Page 11
... Morning Rising and Evening Setting ) . He described the Alexandrian calendar as ' the calendar in common use among us to - day ' . In the Alexandrian calendar the date of the morning rising remains approximately the same from year to ...
... Morning Rising and Evening Setting ) . He described the Alexandrian calendar as ' the calendar in common use among us to - day ' . In the Alexandrian calendar the date of the morning rising remains approximately the same from year to ...
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... morning rising of the Pleiades . This cannot be intended as more than an approxima- tion . Actually , the period of invisibility varies from year to year , because the visibility of such faint stars depends very much on the weather ...
... morning rising of the Pleiades . This cannot be intended as more than an approxima- tion . Actually , the period of invisibility varies from year to year , because the visibility of such faint stars depends very much on the weather ...
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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