In antiquity, the expertise of the Babylonians in matters of the heavens was legendary and the roots of both western astronomy and astrology are traceable in cuneiform tablets going back to the ...second and first millennia BC. The Heavenly Writing, first publsiehd in 2004, discusses the place of Babylonian celestial divination, horoscopy, and astronomy in Mesopotamian intellectual culture. Focusing chiefly on celestial divination and horoscopes, it traces the emergence of personal astrology from the tradition of celestial divination and the use of astronomical methods in horoscopes. It further takes up the historiographical and philosophical issue of the nature of these Mesopotamian 'celestial sciences' by examining elements traditionally of concern to the philosophy of science, without sacrificing the ancient methods, goals, and interests to a modern image of science. This book will be of particular interest to those concerned with the early history of science.
Johannes Kepler contributed importantly to every field he addressed. He changed the face of astronomy by abandoning principles that had been in place for two millennia, made important discoveries in ...optics and mathematics, and was an uncommonly good philosopher. Generally, however, Kepler's philosophical ideas have been dismissed as irrelevant and even detrimental to his legacy of scientific accomplishment. Here, Rhonda Martens offers the first extended study of Kepler's philosophical views and shows how those views helped him construct and justify the new astronomy.
Die Geschichte der mittelalterlichen Astronomie ist trotz der Arbeiten von Sarton, Carmody, Duhem und Thorndike nicht ausreichend erforscht. So sind bislang für den französischen Bereich nur "Le ...commencement de sapience" (1273) von Levy und die ersten drei Bücher der "Compilacions de le science des estoiles" (ca. 1320) von Carmody bearbeitet worden. Vorliegende Arbeit ediert und analysiert den "Introductoire d'astronomie", den ältesten Astronomietraktat in französischer Sprache, der auf ca. 1270 zu datieren ist. Erster Schwerpunkt ist die inhaltliche Analyse des Textes, der im ersten hier edierten Buch die philosophischen Voraussetzungen der Astronomie, kosmologische Fragen, Elemente der sphärischen Astronomie, Sternbilder, die Klimata und astrologische Grundlagen behandelt. Als Quellen konnten Werke von Ptolemäus, Martianus Capella und Albumasar ausgemacht werden. So werden der Wissenschaftsgeschichte anhand der textkritischen Edition neue Erkenntnisse geliefert. Der zweite Schwerpunkt ist die lexikalische Analyse des Traktates. Sie gibt der historischen französischen Lexikographie neue, gesicherte Materialien an die Hand. Mittels kritischer Benutzung der Wörterbücher mit historischen Informationen werden diese in die Geschichte des französischen Wortschatzes integriert. Die Analyse erschloß 73 Fälle, bei denen das Wort oder die Bedeutung bislang noch nicht erfaßt waren, und 142 Erstbelege. Zudem ergaben sich Hunderte von Korrekturen der Wörterbücher, die sowohl kleinere Mängel wie falsche Datierungen als auch methodische Fehler wie Fragen der Definition betreffen.
The Bibliotheca Teubneriana, established in 1849, has evolved into the world's most venerable and extensive series of editions of Greek and Latin literature, ranging from classical to Neo-Latin ...texts. Some 4-5 new editions are published every year. A team of renowned scholars in the field of Classical Philology acts as advisory board: Gian Biagio Conte (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)Marcus Deufert (Universität Leipzig)James Diggle (University of Cambridge)Donald J. Mastronarde (University of California, Berkeley)Franco Montanari (Università di Genova)Heinz-Günther Nesselrath (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)Dirk Obbink (University of Oxford)Oliver Primavesi (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München)Michael D. Reeve (University of Cambridge)Richard J. Tarrant (Harvard University) Formerly out-of-print editions are offered as print-on-demand reprints. Furthermore, all new books in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana series are published as eBooks. The older volumes of the series are being successively digitized and made available as eBooks.If you are interested in ordering an out-of-print edition, which hasn't been yet made available as print-on-demand reprint, please contact us: Tessa.Jahn@degruyter.com All editions of Latin texts published in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana are collected in the online database BTL Online.
Very brief overview of the activities of the members of the Dutch Society for Weather and Astronomy. SHOTS: - A shooting star shoots down from a starry sky; - a boy and a girl watch it; the boy makes ...a wish; - an amateur astronomer watches the same shooting star in his observatory and makes a note on a star map; - another man at his desk later processes the astronomer's note on a map of the Netherlands; - in a workshop in The Hague, amateur astronomers build their own telescopes: They assemble tubes, grind mirrors, assemble a telescope and rotate it; - In his observatory in Halfweg, Mr. Meesters gazes at the sky through his homemade telescope.
Cinema newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.
Bioscoopjournaals waarin Nederlandse onderwerpen van een bepaalde week worden gepresenteerd.
Zeer kort overzicht van de bezigheden van de leden van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Weer- en Sterrenkunde. SHOTS: - Aan een sterrenhemel schiet een vallende ster naar beneden; - een jongen en een meisje kijken ernaar; de jongen spreekt een wens uit; - een amateur-astronoom kijkt in zijn waarnemingspost naar dezelfde vallende ster en maakt een aantekening op een sterrenkaart; - een andere man verwerkt aan zijn bureau later de aantekening van de astronoom op een kaart van Nederland; - in een werkplaats in Den Haag bouwen amateur-astronomen zelf telescopen: ze monteren buizen, slijpen spiegels, zetten een telescoop in elkaar en draaien hem rond; - in zijn observatorium in Halfweg tuurt de heer Meesters door zijn zelfgemaakte telescoop naar de hemel.
Modern science historians have typically treated the sciences of
the ancient Near East as separate from historical and cultural
considerations. At the same time, biblical scholars, dominated by
...theological concerns, have historically understood the Israelite
god as separate from the natural world. Cooley's study, bringing to
bear contemporary models of science history on the one hand and
biblical studies on the other hand, seeks to bridge a gap created
by 20th-century scholarship in our understanding of ancient Near
Eastern cultures by investigating the ways in which ancient authors
incorporated their cultures' celestial speculation in
narrative.
In the literature of ancient Iraq, celestial divination is
displayed quite prominently in important works such as Enuma
Eliš and Erra and Išum . In ancient Ugarit as well,
the sky was observed for devotional reasons, and astral deities
play important roles in stories such as the Baal Cycle and
Shahar and Shalim . Even though the veneration of astral
deities was rejected by biblical authors, in the literature of
ancient Israel the Sun, Moon, and stars are often depicted as
active, conscious agents. In texts such as Genesis 1, Joshua 10,
Judges 5, and Job 38, these celestial characters, these "sons of
God," are living, dynamic members of Yahweh's royal entourage,
willfully performing courtly, martial, and calendrical roles for
their sovereign.
The synthesis offered by this book, the first of its kind since
the demise of the pan-Babylonianist school more than a century ago,
is about ancient science in ancient Near Eastern literature.
Astronomy Methods, first published in 2003, is an introduction to the basic practical tools, methods and phenomena that underlie quantitative astronomy. Taking a technical approach, the author covers ...a rich diversity of topics across all branches of astronomy, from radio to gamma-ray wavelengths. Topics include the quantitative aspects of the electromagnetic spectrum, atmospheric and interstellar absorption, telescopes in all wavebands, interferometry, adaptive optics, the transport of radiation through matter to form spectral lines, and neutrino and gravitational-wave astronomy. Clear, systematic presentations of the topics are accompanied by diagrams and problem sets. Written for undergraduates and graduate students, this book contains a wealth of information that is required for the practice and study of quantitative and analytical astronomy and astrophysics.
