The collection of papers assembled here on a variety of topics in
ancient and medieval astronomy was originally suggested by Noel
Swerdlow of the University of Chicago. He was also instrumental in
making a selection* which would, in general, be on the same level
as my book The Exact Sciences in Antiquity. It may also provide a
general background for my more technical History of Ancient
Mathematical Astronomy and for my edition of Astronomi cal
Cuneiform Texts. Several of these republished articles were written
because I wanted to put to rest well-entrenched historical myths
which could not withstand close scrutiny of the sources. Examples
are the supposed astronomical origin of the Egyptian calendar (see
[9]), the discovery of precession by the Babylonians [16], and the
"simplification" of the Ptolemaic system in Copernicus' De
Revolutionibus [40]. In all of my work I have striven to present as
accurately as I could what the original sources reveal (which is
often very different from the received view). Thus, in [32]
discussion of the technical terminology illuminates the meaning of
an ancient passage which has been frequently misused to support
modern theories about ancient heliocentrism; in [33] an almost
isolated instance reveals how Greek world-maps really looked; and
in [43] the Alexandrian Easter computus, held in awe by many
historians, is shown from Ethiopic sources to be based on very
simple procedures.
General
| Imprint: |
Springer-Verlag New York
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
August 1983 |
| First published: |
1983 |
| Authors: |
O Neugebauer
|
| Dimensions: |
235 x 155 x 28mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
539 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-387-90844-1 |
| Languages: |
English
•
German
|
| Categories: |
Books >
Science & Mathematics >
Astronomy, space & time >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-387-90844-7 |
| Barcode: |
9780387908441 |
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