Astronomy, Weather, and Calendars in the Ancient World: Parapegmata and Related Texts in Classical and Near-Eastern Societies (Hardback)
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Short Description for Astronomy, Weather, and Calendars in the Ancient World This 2007 book explains the popular instruments and texts (parapegmata) used in antiquity for astronomical weather prediction.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 24 September 2007
- Format: Hardback 580 pages
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- Categories: History Of Science | Astronomy, Space & Time | Time (chronology), Time Systems & Standards | Meteorology & Climatology | Ancient History: To C 500 CE
- ISBN 13: 9780521851817 ISBN 10: 0521851815
- Sales rank: 1,313,698
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Full description for Astronomy, Weather, and Calendars in the Ancient World
The focus of this book, first published in 2007, 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. Sources are presented in full, with an accompanying translation. A 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?
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