Astronomy and History Selected Essays (English and German Edition)
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (914 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0387908447 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 539 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Railbird said Die Grundlage. Neugebauer was not the first to inquire into cuneform, but he contributed mightily to our understanding of ancient Sumerian contributions to mathematics and astronomy. How ill informed are those who scoff at astrology and the primitive astronomy of the ancients! To have gotten as far as they did with the tools they had required enormous persistance and intelligence. Hats off to the Sumerians for inventing the modern world, almost inventing civilization itself and to Dr. Neugebauer for peering through the tiny keyhole that
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.. 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. 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). 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. Examples