Planetary, Lunar, and Solar Positions: 601 B.C. to A.D. 1: At Five-day and Ten-day Intervals

Reprint 1990. The need for the present tables became pressing several years ago when hundreds of astronomical cuneiform tablets in the British Museum became available for study, partly through the copies made in the 1998's by Father J. N. Strassmaier and T.G. Pinches. All the texts originally came from some achieve in Babylon which was discovered by Arabs in the middle of the nineteenth century. Most of the texts were written during the Macedonian and Parthian occupation of Mesopotamia from about 330 BC to the first century AD. The exacting work of slowly restoring a huge archive of well over a thousand texts to its full usefulness for the astronomer as well as for the historical of astronomy and historian of the Hellenistic age is being carried out in all its aspects - the present tables are a most valuable tool for this work and will remain so for all future evaluation of the new evidence now becoming available. Professional book seller with storefront since 1975. All orders carefully packaged and promptly shipped.…