The Challenge of the Astronomical Diaries from Babylon: Authors, Concern, Scholarship, and Worldview Reconsidered

The Astronomical Diaries are a unique corpus of documents from Babylon containing daily observations of celestial and terrestrial phenomena in the last half millennium before the Common Era. They provide direct information on how Babylonian scholars conducted scientific research and viewed political...

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1. VerfasserIn: Spek, Robartus J. van der 1949- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: American Oriental Society 2022
In: Journal of the American Oriental Society
Jahr: 2022, Band: 142, Heft: 4, Seiten: 975–981
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Zusammenfassung:The Astronomical Diaries are a unique corpus of documents from Babylon containing daily observations of celestial and terrestrial phenomena in the last half millennium before the Common Era. They provide direct information on how Babylonian scholars conducted scientific research and viewed political, economic, and religious events of their time—in other words, how they experienced their era. The book under review is a good introduction to this corpus.
ISSN:2169-2289
Enthält:Enthalten in: American Oriental Society, Journal of the American Oriental Society
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.7817/jaos.142.4.2022.ra006