The circulation of astronomical knowledge in the ancient world / edited by John M. Steele.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction -- 1. The Brown school of the history of science: Historiography and the Astral sciences -- 2. Astral knowledge in an international age: Transmission of the Cuneiform tradition, ca. 1500-1000 b.c. -- 3. Traditions of Mesopotamian celestial-divinatory schemes and the 4th tablet of �Summa Sin ina T�amarti�su -- 4. The circulation of astonomical knowledge between Babylon and Uruk -- 5. The micro-zodiac in Babylon and Uruk: Seleucid zodiacal astrology -- 6. Virtual moons over Babylonia: The calendar text system, its micro-zodiac of 13, and the making of medical zodiology -- 7. On the concomitancy of the seemingly incommensurable, or why Egyptian astral tradition needs to be analyzed within its cultural context -- 8. Some astrologers and their handbooks in Demotic Egyptian -- 9. The anaphoricus of Hypsicles of Alexandria -- 10. Interpolated observations and historical observational records in Ptolemy's astronomy -- 11. Mesopotamian lunar Omens in Justinian's Constantinople -- 12. A parallel universe: The transmission of astronomical terminology in early Chinese almanacs -- 13. Mercury and the case for plural planetary traditions in early imperial China -- 14. Calendrial systems in early imperical China -- 14. Calendrical systems in early imperical China: reform, evaluation and tradition -- 15. The twelve signs of the zodiac during the Tang and Song dynasties: A set of signs which lost their meanings within Chinese horoscopic astrology -- 16. On the Dunhuang manuscript p.4071: a case study on the Sinicization of Western horoscope in late 10th century China -- 17. Were planetary models of ancient India strongly influenced by Greek astronomy?

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Astronomical and astrological knowledge circulated in many ways in the ancient world: in the form of written texts and through oral communication; by the conscious assimilation of sought-after knowledge and the unconscious absorption of ideas to which scholars were exposed. The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World explores the ways in which astronomical knowledge circulated between different communities of scholars over time and space, and what was done with that knowledge when it was received. Examples are discussed from Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Greco-Roman world, India, and China.

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