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Procli Diadochi hypotyposis astronomicarum positionum (Bibliotheca Teubneriana)

Astronomy, Greek --- Astronomy --- Astronomie grecque --- Astronomie --- Early works to 1800 --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Astronomy, Greek. --- Greek astronomy

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Beim Traktat des bekannten alexandrinischen Gelehrten und Aristoteles-Kommentators Johannes Philoponos (6. Jh. n. Chr.) über das Astrolab handelt es sich um eine kleine, für die Wissenschaftsgeschichte aber sehr bedeutsame Schrift, da es die älteste erhaltene Beschreibung und Funktionsanleitung des später besonders im islamischen Bereich weit verbreiteten astronomischen Gerätes enthält. Die Schrift ist in der Philologie recht stiefmütterlich behandelt worden und war bis jetzt lediglich als Beitrag im ‚Rheinischen Museum‘ von 1839 zugänglich. Das Ziel des vorliegenden Büchleins besteht darin, den griechischen Text in einer neu redigierten, durch Berücksichtigung weiterer Handschriften gestützten Fassung vorzulegen und die Abhandlung mit einer deutschen Übersetzung und den nötigen Erläuterungen und Illustrationen einem weiteren Interessentenkreis zugänglich zu machen. Den griechischen Vorfahren der späteren kunstvollen islamischen und abendländischen Astrolabgeräten kennenzulernen, dürfte nicht nur den Fachmann interessieren. This treatise on the astrolabe by the Alexandrian scholar John Philoponos includes the earliest preserved description of the planispherical device that was later widely disseminated during the Middle Ages. Stückelberger’s edition is intended for philologists as well as historians and astronomers. The newly edited Greek text is accompanied by a German translation, explanations, and illustrations.

Astrolabes --- Early works to 1800 --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Ouvrages avant 1800. --- Astronomy, Greek. --- Astronomical instruments --- Greek astronomy --- History.

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The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar is a rare document of omens foretold by thunder. It long lay hidden, embedded in a Greek translation within a Byzantine treatise from the age of Justinian. The first complete English translation of the Brontoscopic Calendar, this book provides an understanding of Etruscan Iron Age society as revealed through the ancient text, especially the Etruscans' concerns regarding the environment, food, health and disease. Jean MacIntosh Turfa also analyzes the ancient Near Eastern sources of the Calendar and the subjects of its predictions, thereby creating a picture of the complexity of Etruscan society reaching back before the advent of writing and the recording of the calendar.

Etruscans --- Omens. --- Calendar, Greek. --- Astronomy, Greek. --- Greek astronomy --- Greek calendar --- Portents --- Prodigies (Omens) --- Signs (Omens) --- Superstition --- Signs and symbols --- Religion. --- Lydus, Johannes Laurentius, --- Arts and Humanities --- History

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At some time around 200 A.D., the Stoic philosopher and teacher Cleomedes delivered a set of lectures on elementary astronomy as part of a complete introduction to Stoicism for his students. The result was The Heavens (Caelestia), the only work by a professional Stoic teacher to survive intact from the first two centuries A.D., and a rare example of the interaction between science and philosophy in late antiquity. This volume contains a clear and idiomatic English translation-the first ever-of The Heavens, along with an informative introduction, detailed notes, and technical diagrams. This important work will now be accessible to specialists in both ancient philosophy and science and to readers interested in the history of astronomy and cosmology but with no knowledge of ancient Greek.

Astronomy, Greek. --- Astronomy --- Astronomy, Greek --- 520.938 --- Greek astronomy --- Physical sciences --- Space sciences --- Sciences Astronomy History Ancient World Greece --- Astronomy - Early works to 1800 --- alexandria. --- ancient greece. --- ancient greeks. --- ancient philosophy. --- astronomy. --- caelestia. --- cleomedes. --- cosmology. --- cosmos. --- greek philosophy. --- hellenism. --- metaphysics. --- moral philosophy. --- natural world. --- nonfiction. --- philosophy. --- science and philosophy. --- social philosophy. --- stoic philosopher. --- stoic philosophy. --- stoicism. --- the heavens. --- zodiac.