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 viii
... paths in the sky The 36 morning risings Further sections of the text mulAPIN Ziqpu stars . The constellations in the path of the moon The four astronomical seasons Gnomon Tables .. DURATION OF THE NIGHT AND VISIBILITY OF THE MOON . VIII ...
... paths in the sky The 36 morning risings Further sections of the text mulAPIN Ziqpu stars . The constellations in the path of the moon The four astronomical seasons Gnomon Tables .. DURATION OF THE NIGHT AND VISIBILITY OF THE MOON . VIII ...
Page xii
... Path Steps · 230 231 233 233 236 236 237 238 239 240 240 241 242 244 244 244 244 245 245 246 . 247 • 248 250-283 250 253 253 254 256 · 257 258 259 260 261 262 262 263 264 264 265 The sidereal period The sun - distance principle 266 266 ...
... Path Steps · 230 231 233 233 236 236 237 238 239 240 240 241 242 244 244 244 244 245 245 246 . 247 • 248 250-283 250 253 253 254 256 · 257 258 259 260 261 262 262 263 264 264 265 The sidereal period The sun - distance principle 266 266 ...
Page 4
... path of the sun . The sun traverses this path annually towards the left , i.e. in opposite direction to its daily motion . The name ' ecliptic ' is due to the fact that eclipses of the sun and moon occur only when the moon is directly ...
... path of the sun . The sun traverses this path annually towards the left , i.e. in opposite direction to its daily motion . The name ' ecliptic ' is due to the fact that eclipses of the sun and moon occur only when the moon is directly ...
Page 5
... 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 can occur . Shortly after ...
... 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 can occur . Shortly after ...
Page 6
... path is not quite uniform : it has an anomaly . The time required for the moon to pass from one maximum of its speed through the minimum to the next maximum is the anomalistic month . The phases of the fixed stars and planets A star ...
... path is not quite uniform : it has an anomaly . The time required for the moon to pass from one maximum of its speed through the minimum to the next maximum is the anomalistic month . The phases of the fixed stars and planets A star ...
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