Abstract
THE ANCIENT EXACT SCIENCES are the main subject in this collection of papers, offered in honor of Lis Brack-Bernsen by her colleagues and friends. The topics of the articles are linked by the themes that have been at the center of much of Lis’s own work: the Babylonian observational record, and the relationship between observation and theory; the gnomon, sundials, and time measurement; and the relationship between different scientific activities in the ancient world, especially the connections between mathematics and astronomy. Lis Brack-Bernsen has been a key figure in tranforming the study of Babylonian astronomy from an almost exclusive focus on the mathematical astronomy of the late period to embracing a much broader consideration of all aspects of the subject, both early and late, mathematical and observational, astronomical and astrological, and their relationships between one another. The papers demonstrate the wide variety of questions asked and approaches used by historians of ancient science.
Inhalt
- 7-9Introduction / John Steele / 2017
- 11-15Foreword: An Essay in Story Form, Honoring Babylonian Astronomers and Connecting Them with Scholars Who Study the Tablets Today / Norbert A. Roughton / 2017
- 19-68Dating by Month-Lengths Revisited / Peter Huber / 2017
- 69-81A Text Containing Observations of Mars from the Time of Nebuchadnezzar II / John Steele / 2017
- 83-103The Coordinate System of Astronomical Observations in the Babylonian Diaries / Gerd Graßhoff, Erich Wenger / 2017
- 105-126On the Origin of the Lunar and Solar Periods in Babylonian Lunar Theory / Teije de Jong / 2017
- 127-146BM 76488 - a Babylonian Compendium about Conjunctions and other Planetary Phenomena / Mathieu Ossendrijver / 2017
- 149-163The So-Called Report on Seasonal Hours (K 2077+): A New Interpretation / Hermann Hunger / 2017
- 165-182Ancient Greek Sundials and the Theory of Conic Sections Reconsidered / Elisabeth Rinner / 2017
- 183-203The Roofed Spherical Sundial and the Greek Geometry of Curves / Alexander Jones / 2017
- 207-224Practitioners - School ‘Mathematicians’: The Divisions of Pre-Modern Mathematics and Its Actors / Jens Høyrup / 2017
- 225-232A Mysterious Circular Tablet with Numbers and Stars / John Steele, Wayne Horowitz / 2017
- 233-260An Ancient Celestial Empire of Benevolent Knowledge / Francesca Rochberg / 2017
- 263-269In Honor of Lis Brack-Bernsen / John Steele, Mathieu Ossendrijver / 2017
Herausgeber
John M. Steele (Dissertation 1998 Durham University, B.Sc. 1995) ist Professor für Ägyptologie und Assyriologie an der Brown University. Als antiker Wissenschaftshistoriker ist sein Spezialgebiet die Geschichte der Astronomie mit dem Schwerpunkt Babylonische Astronomie. Er ist Herausgeber der Reihe Scientific Writings from the Ancient and Medieval World und beratender Redakteur des Journal for the History of Astronomy.
Mathieu Ossendrijver hat eine Promotion in Astrophysik (Utrecht 1996) und eine Promotion in Assyriologie (Tübingen 2010) erworben. Er ist seit 2013 Professor für Antike Wissenschaftsgeschichte an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind babylonische Astronomie und Mathematik.
Citation
BibTeX
@collection{Steele2017,
editor = {John Steele and Mathieu Ossendrijver},
title = {Studies on the Ancient Exact Sciences in Honour of Lis Brack-Bernsen},
series = {Berlin Studies of the Ancient World},
number = {44},
date = {2017},
publisher = {Edition Topoi},
location = {Berlin},
url = {http://edition-topoi.org/books/details/1307},
urldate = {2018-10-18},
doi = {10.17171/3-44},
urn = {urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-100246190},
isbn = {978-3-9816384-5-5},
}