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[BibMAS] Bibliography of Mesopotamian Astral Science # Skip to Database Bibliography of Mesopotamian Astral Science – reduced variation This list is only a trimmed down variation of the BibMAS database (v 0.6); for more information and for accessing the complete database, see bibmas.topoi.org. Please do not circulate without this notice. © 2013/2018 (file created 2018-09-06) by Alex Schwinger, in cooperation with Mathieu Ossendrijver. author editor year title higher-level context bib-type url Aaboe A Boardma 1991 Babylonian Mathematics, The Cambridge Ancient History @incollec DOI n J & Astrology and Astronomy [CAH], vol. 3 [of 14]: The Assyrian tion URL Edwards and Babylonian Empires and other I & States of the Near East, from the Hammon Eighth to the Sixth Centuries BC; d N & ed. by BOARDMAN ET AL.; pt. 2 Sollberge (edn: 2) r E ch.: 28b, pp. 276-292 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Aaboe A Hodson 1974 Scientific Astronomy in The Place of Astronomy in the @inproce URL F Antiquity Ancient World: A Joint Symposium edings of the Royal Society and the British Academy [PTRSL A 276]; ed. by HODSON [=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences [PTRSL A], nr 276 (1257)] pp. 21-42 Oxford: Royal Society Aaboe A Hoskin M 1972 Remarks on the Theoretical Journal for the History of Astronomy @article URL Treatment of Eclipses in [JHA], vol. 3 (1972), iss. 2 Antiquity pp. 105-118 London: Science History Publications Aaboe A King D & 1987 A Late-Babylonian Procedure Annals of the New York Academy of @article DOI Saliba G Text for Mars, and Some Sciences, vol. 500 (1987), nr 1 Remarks on Retrograde Arcs [From Deferent to Equant: A Volume of Studies in the History of Science in the Ancient and Mediaeval Near East in Honor of E. S. Kennedy [Fs Kennedy]] pp. 1-14 New York: Blackwell Publishing Aaboe A Maeyam 1977 A Computed Cuneiform Text Πρισματα (Prismata): @incollec a Y & for Mercury from Babylon: Naturwissenschaftsgeschichtliche tion Saltzer B.M. 48147 Studien. Festschrift für Willy W Hartner; ed. by MAEYAMA ET AL. pp. 1-8 Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag Aaboe A Steele J 2002 On Columns H and J in Under One Sky: Astronomy and @inproce & Babylonian Lunar Theory of Mathematics in the Ancient Near edings Imhause System B East; ed. by STEELE ET AL. n A [=Alter Orient und Altes Testament: Veröffentlichungen zur Kultur und Geschichte des Alten Orients und des Alten Testaments [AOAT], nr 297] pp. 1-4 Münster: Ugarit-Verlag http://bibmas.topoi.org/reduced/[11.09.18, 10:30:08] [BibMAS] Bibliography of Mesopotamian Astral Science Aaboe A Swerdlo 1999 A New Mathematical Text Ancient Astronomy and Celestial @inproce w N from the Astronomical Divination; ed. by SWERDLOW edings Archive in Babylon: BM [Dibner Institute Studies in the 36849B History of Science and Technology ser.] pp. 179-186 Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press Aaboe A [undated What every young person [no parental ref.] @unpubli ] ought to know about naked- shed eye astronomy Aaboe A 2001 Episodes From the Early [no parental ref.] @book DOI History of Astronomy. With 50 New York, Berlin, and Heidelberg: URL Figures Springer Verlag Aaboe A 2001 What Every Young Person Episodes From the Early History of @inbook DOI Ought to Know About Astronomy; by AABOE Naked-Eye Astronomy pp. 1-23 New York, Berlin, and Heidelberg: Springer Verlag Aaboe A 1984 Ancient Babylonian Archaeoastronomy: The Journal of @review URL Astronomy: Review Essay of the Center for Archaeoastronomy, Three Books by Asger Aaboe vol. 7 (1984, January) pp. 136-137 College Park, MD: Center for Archaeoastronomy, University of Maryland Aaboe A 1980 Observation and Theory in Centaurus: International Magazine @article DOI Babylonian Astronomy of the Historyof Science and Medicine, vol. 24 (1980), nr 1 pp. 14-35 Copenhagen: Munksgaard International Publishers Aaboe A 1971 Lunar and Solar Velocities Kongelige danske videnskabernes @book URL and the Length of Lunation selskab, matematisk-fysiske Intervals in Babylonian meddelelser [KDVSMM], nr 38, 6 Astronomy Copenhagen: Munksgaard International Publishers Aaboe A 1969 A Computed List of New Kongelige danske videnskabernes @book URL Moons for 319 B.C. to 316 selskab, matematisk-fysiske B.C. from Babylon: B.M. 40094 meddelelser [KDVSMM], nr 37, 3 Copenhagen: Munksgaard International Publishers Aaboe A 1968 Some Lunar Auxiliary Tables Kongelige danske videnskabernes @book URL and Related Texts from the selskab, matematisk-fysiske Late Babylonian Period meddelelser [KDVSMM], nr 36, 12 Copenhagen: Munksgaard International Publishers Aaboe A 1966 On a Babylonian Scheme for Centaurus: International Magazine @supppe DOI Solar Motion of the System of the History of Science and riodical A Variety Medicine, vol. 11 (1966), nr 3 pp. 302-303 Copenhagen: Munksgaard International Publishers Aaboe A 1965 On Period Relations in Centaurus: International Magazine @article DOI Babylonian Astronomy of the History of Science and Medicine, vol. 10 (1965), nr 4 pp. 213-231 Copenhagen: Munksgaard International Publishers Aaboe A 1965 Some Seleucid Mathematical Journal of Cuneiform Studies [JCS], @article DOI Tables: (Extended Reciprocals and vol. 19 (1965), nr 3 URL http://bibmas.topoi.org/reduced/[11.09.18, 10:30:08] [BibMAS] Bibliography of Mesopotamian Astral Science Squares of Regular Numbers) pp. 79-86 Boston: The American Schools of Oriental Research Aaboe A 1964 A Seleucid Table of Daily Journal of Cuneiform Studies [JCS], @article DOI Solar (?) Positions vol. 18 (1964), nr 2 URL pp. 31-34 Boston: The American Schools of Oriental Research Aaboe A 1963 On a Greek Qualitative Centaurus: International Magazine @article DOI Planetary Model of the of the History of Science and Epicyclic Variety Medicine, vol. 9 (1963), nr 1 pp. 1-10 Copenhagen: Munksgaard International Publishers Aaboe A 1960 On the Tables of Planetary Kongelige danske videnskabernes @book URL Visibility in the Almagest selskab, historisk-filosofiske and the Handy Tables meddelelser [KDVSHM], nr 37, 8 Copenhagen: Munksgaard International Publishers Aaboe A 1958 On Babylonian Planetary Centaurus: International Magazine @article URL Theories of the History of Science and Medicine, vol. 5 (1958), nr 3-4 pp. 209-277 Copenhagen: Munksgaard International Publishers Aaboe A 1955 On the Babylonian Origin of Centaurus: International Magazine @article DOI some Hipparchian of the History of Science and Parameters Medicine, vol. 4 (1955), nr 2 pp. 122-125 Copenhagen: Munksgaard International Publishers Aaboe A 1991 Saros Cycle Dates and Transactions of the American @article DOI & Britton Related Babylonian Philosophical Society [TAPS], URL J & Astronomical Texts vol. 81 (1991), nr 6 Henders pp. 1-75 on J & Philadelphia: The American Neugeba Philosophical Society uer O & Sachs A Aaboe A 1979 Contributions to the Study Kongelige danske videnskabernes @book URL & of Babylonian Lunar Theory selskab, matematisk-fysiske Hamilton meddelelser [KDVSMM], nr 40, 6 N Copenhagen: Munksgaard International Publishers Aaboe A 1975 The Babylonian Theory of Archives Internationales d’Histoire @article URL & Lunar Latitude and Eclipses des Sciences [AIHS], vol. 25 (1975, Henders According to System A December), nr 97 on J pp. 181-222 Turnhout: Brepols Aaboe A Ellis M 1977 A Text Concerning Essays on the Ancient Near East in @incollec & Huber Subdivision of the Synodic the Memory of Jacob Joel tion P Motion of Venus from Finkelstein [Fs Finkelstein]; ed. by Babylon: BM 37151 ELLIS [=Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, nr 19] pp. 1-4 Hamden, CT: Archon Books for the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences Aaboe A Taton R 1965 Qualitative Measurements in Mélanges Alexandre Koyré: Publiés @incollec & Price & Cohen Antiquity: The Derivation of à l’occasion de son soixante- tion http://bibmas.topoi.org/reduced/[11.09.18, 10:30:08] [BibMAS] Bibliography of Mesopotamian Astral Science D B Accurate Parameters from Crude dixième anniversaire, vol. 1 [of 2]: but Crucial Observations L’aventure de la science [Fs Koyré 1]; ed. by TATON ET AL. [=Histoire de la pensée, nr 12] pp. 1-20 Paris: Hermann Aaboe A 1969 Two Lunar Texts of the Centaurus: International Magazine @article DOI & Sachs Achaemenid Period from of the History of Science and A Babylon Medicine, vol. 14 (1969), nr 1 pp. 1-22 Copenhagen: Munksgaard International Publishers Aaboe A 1966 Some Dateless Computed Journal of Cuneiform Studies [JCS], @article DOI & Sachs Lists of Longitudes of vol. 20 (1966), nr 1 URL A Characteristic Planetary pp. 1-33 Phenomena from the Late- Boston: The American Schools of Babylonian Period Oriental Research Abusch Collins J 1995 Ascent to the Stars in a Death, Ecstasy, and Other Worldly @incollec URL T & Mesopotamian Ritual: Social Journeys: Essays by Men and tion Fishbane Metaphor and Religious Experience Women; ed. by COLLINS ET AL. M [SUNY Series in Religious Studies ser.] pp. 15-39 Albany, NY: State University of New York Press Adelman 1943 [Untitled] The Philosophical Review, vol. 52 @review DOI n H (1943) (1943), nr 2 URL pp. 204-205 Durham: Duke University Press Ahnert P 1990 Astronomisch- [no parental ref.] @book chronologische Tafeln für Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth Sonne, Mond und Planeten (edn: 7) Airy G 1853 On the Eclipses of Philosophical Transactions of the @article URL Agathocles, Thales, and Royal Society of London [PTRSL], Xerxes vol. 143 (1853) pp. 179-200 Royal Society Aistleitne 1955 Ein Opfertext aus Ugarit (Nr. Acta Orientalia Academiae @article r J 53) mit Exkurs über Scientiarum Hungaricae kosmologische Beziehungen [ActaOrHung], vol. 5 (1955), iss. 1/2 der ugaritischen Mythologie pp. 1-23 Albani M 1994 Astronomie und Wissenschaftliche Monographien @book Schöpfungsglaube: zum Alten und Neuen Testament, Untersuchungen zum nr 68 astronomischen Henochbuch Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag Albani M 1992 Die lunaren Zyklen im 364- Mitteilungen und Beiträge der @article Tage-Festkalender von Forschungsstelle Judentum an der 4QMischmerot/4QSe Theologischen Fakultät Leipzig, vol. 4 (1992) pp. 3-47 Leipzig: Thomas-Verlag Albani M 1997 Un instrument de mesures Revue Biblique [RB], vol.
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  • It Is Now Well Known That the Constellations of the Zodiac Originated in the Ancient Land of Babylonia (Modern Day Iraq). Yet, D

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    It is now well known that the constellations of the Zodiac originated in the ancient land of Babylonia (modern day Iraq). Yet, despite more than a century and a half of scholarship, very little information on this subject has been made accessible to the non- specialist. We are very grateful to Gavin White for allowing us to reproduce excerpts of his recently published Babylonian Star-lore . Over the forthcoming months these articles will help to address this deficiency by presenting the lore and symbolism of the twelve Babylonian Zodiac constellations. The excerpts reproduced on this site are taken, with the author's permission, from the recently published book ' Babylonian Star-lore ' by Gavin White. THE SPRING EQUINOX PERIOD (Pages 27-9) By the time of the spring equinox, light has triumphed over darkness as the days now start to outlast the nights and as such it is a time when new life is celebrated and any lingering influences of the winter are banished. In the fields and cattle-folds, the spring is celebrated as the time of nature’s abundance when a majority of animals bear their young, the harvest is brought in and all nature springs into life. The new moon closest to the spring equinox marks the start of the calendrical New Year. And befitting this sacred juncture it is the season most closely associated with the king, who is now inaugurated and empowered by the gods to rule for another term. The constellations rising around the time of the spring equinox Contrary to its name, the Hired Man was represented in the heavens by the familiar ram or lamb of Aries .