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Astronomy, Weather, and Calendars in the Ancient World: Parapegmata and Related Texts in Classical and Near-Eastern Societies

by: Lehoux, D.

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Category: Ancient Technology / Science
Code: 2524
ISBN-13: 9780521851817 / 978-0-521-85181-7
ISBN-10: 0521851815 / 0-521-85181-5
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2007
Publication Place: Cambridge
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 566
Book Condition: New

 The focus of this book is the interplay between ancient astronomy, meteorology, physics and calendrics. It looks at a set of popular instruments and texts (parapegmata) used in antiquity for astronomical weather prediction and the regulation of day-to-day life. Farmers, doctors, sailors, and others needed to know when the heavens were conducive to various activities, and they developed a set of fairly sophisticated tools and texts for tracking temporal, astronomical, and weather cycles. For the first time the sources are presented in full, with an accompanying translation. A new and comprehensive analysis explores questions such as: What methodologies were used in developing the science of astrometeorology? What kinds of instruments were employed and how did these change over time? How was the material collected and passed on? How did practices and theories differ in the different cultural contexts of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome?-

 

Part I. Parapegmata and Astrometeorology: 1. The rain in Attica falls mainly under Sagitta; 2. Spelt and Spica; 3. De signis; 4. When is thirty days not a month?; 5. Calendars, weather, and stars in Babylon; 6. Egyptian astrometeorology; 7. Conclusion; Part II. Sources: Catalogue of extant parapegmata; Extant parapegmata; Appendix 1. Authorities cited in parapegmata; Appendix 2. Tables of correspondence of parapegmata.

Subjects:
15.51 Antiquity
38.80 meteorology: general
800 b.C.-500 a.C
Altertum
Antike
Astrometeorologie
Astrometeorology Greece History Sources
Astrometeorology Rome History Sources
Astrométéorologie Grèce Histoire Sources
Astrométéorologie Rome Histoire Sources
Astronomi historia antiken
Astronomie
Astronomy
Calendars
Greece
Griechenland
History
Kalender
Kalendrar historia antiken
Mediterranean area
Meteorologi historia antiken
Middle East
Osservazioni astronomiche Antichità
Parapegma
Parapegmata
Parapegmata Greece
Parapegmata Rome
Parapegmes Grèce
Parapegmes Rome
Quelle
Rome (Empire)
Römisches Reich
Sources (form)
Weather forecast

xiv, 566 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

 
 
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