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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... fix the dates of the annually recurring phenomena of the fixed stars ( such as Morning Rising and Evening Setting ) . He described the Alexandrian calendar as ' the calendar in common use among us to - day ' . In the Alexandrian ...
... fix the dates of the annually recurring phenomena of the fixed stars ( such as Morning Rising and Evening Setting ) . He described the Alexandrian calendar as ' the calendar in common use among us to - day ' . In the Alexandrian ...
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... stars depends very much on the weather . HESIODOS then describes the autumn , when the power of the scorching sun ... fixed points of the year . On the basis of these fixed points , the year is divided into seasons and the right times ...
... stars depends very much on the weather . HESIODOS then describes the autumn , when the power of the scorching sun ... fixed points of the year . On the basis of these fixed points , the year is divided into seasons and the right times ...
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... fixed stars and the sun . Just as in Egypt the agri- cultural year began with the morning rising of Sirius , and just as HESIODOS divided his farmer's year by stellar phases and solar solstices , so , too , in Babylonia the farmer paid ...
... fixed stars and the sun . Just as in Egypt the agri- cultural year began with the morning rising of Sirius , and just as HESIODOS divided his farmer's year by stellar phases and solar solstices , so , too , in Babylonia the farmer paid ...
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H. van der Waerden. conditions ; for faint stars it is much larger1 ) . Naturally , h also depends on the weather . The position of the sun S on the celestial sphere lies always in a fixed circle , called the ecliptic . The Greeks called ...
H. van der Waerden. conditions ; for faint stars it is much larger1 ) . Naturally , h also depends on the weather . The position of the sun S on the celestial sphere lies always in a fixed circle , called the ecliptic . The Greeks called ...
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Contents
8 | |
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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