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x, 378 Seiten. Gutes Exemplar mit nur leichten Gebrauchsspuren. Textsauber und aus einem Nichtraucherhaushalt. Sprache: Englisch. Seller Inventory # 38642
Title: Ancient Astronomy and Celestial Divination.
Publisher: Cambridge, London: MIT Press
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Original-Pappband.
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller: Ted Kottler, Bookseller, Redondo Beach, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition. viii, 1 leaf, 378 pp; text figs.; tables. Near Fine, in original printed boards. Contributors include Grasshoff, Aaboe, Swerdlow, Alexander Jones, Bernard R. Goldstein, Anne Tihon, et al. Seller Inventory # 01575
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Seller: Archiv Fuenfgiebelhaus, Rostock, Germany
Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. X + 378 pages, orig. hardcover, fine. - - Contents: Preface. - Bibliographical and Other Standard. - Introduction. - - Erica Reiner: Babylonian Celestial Divination. - - Francesca Rochberg: Babylonian Horoscopy: The Texts and Their Relations. - - Christopher B. F. Walker: Babylonian Observations of Saturn during the Reign of Kandalanu. - - Hermann Hunger: Non-mathematical Astronomical Texts and Their Relationships. - - Gerd Graßhoff: Normal Star Observations in Late Babylonian Astronomical Diaries. - - Lis Brack-Bernsen: Goal-Year Tablets: Lunar Data and Predictions. - - Asger Aaboe: A New Mathematical Text from the Astronomical Archive in Babylon: BM 36849. - - John P. Britton: Lunar Anomaly in Babylonian Astronomy: Portrait of an Original Theory. - - N. M. Swerdlow: The Derivation of the Parameters of Babylonian Planetary Theory with Time as the Principal Independent Variable. - - Alexander Jones: A Classification of Astronomical Tables on Papyrus. - - Bernard R. Goldstein & Alan C. Bowen: The Role of Observations in Ptolemys Lunar Theories. - - Anne Tihon: Theon of Alexandria and Ptolemys Handy Tables. Seller Inventory # 03177
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