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Ta Phainomena tou Aratou stous synchronous kai tous metagenesterous tou
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ISBN: 9789604042821 9604042823 Year: 2014 Publisher: Athēnai : Akadēmia Athēnōn, Kentro Ereunēs tēs Hellēnikēs kai Latinikēs Grammateias,

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Ancient Jewish Sciences and the History of Knowledge in Second Temple Literature
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ISBN: 9781479873975 1479873977 9781479863983 147986398X 9781479823048 147982304X Year: 2014 Publisher: New York, NY

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Until very recently, the idea of ancient Jewish sciences would havebeen considered unacceptable. Since the 1990’s, Early Modernand Medieval Science in Jewish sources has been actively studied, but the consensus was that no real scientific themes couldbe found in earlier Judaism. This work points them out in detail,and posits a new field of research: the scientific activity evidentin the Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Jewish Pseudepigrapha. Thepublication of new texts and new analyses of older ones revealscrucial elements that are best illuminated by the history of science, and may have interesting consequences for it. The contributors evaluate these texts in relation to astronomy, astrology andphysiognomy, marking the first comprehensive attempt to accountfor scientific themes in Second Temple Judaism. They investigatethe meaning and purpose of scientific explorations in an apocalyptic setting. An appreciation of these topics paves the way toa renewed understanding of the scientific fragments scatteredthroughout rabbinic literature.The book first places the Jewish material in the ancient contextof the Near Eastern and Hellenistic worlds. While the Jewish textswere not on the cutting edge of scientific discovery, they find ameaningful place in the history of science, between Babylonia andEgypt, in the time period between Hipparchus and Ptolemy. Thebook uses recent advances in method to examine the contacts andnetworks of Jewish scholars in their ancient setting. Second, theessays here tackle the problematic concept of a national scientifictradition. Although science is nowadays often conceived as universal, the historiography of ancient Jewish sciences demonstratesthe importance of seeing the development of science in a localcontext. The book explores the tension between the hegemony ofcentral scientific traditions and local scientific enterprises, showing the relevance of ancient data to contemporary postcolonialhistoriography of science. Finally, philosophical questions of thedemarcation of science are addressed in a way that can advancethe discussion of related ancient materials.Online edition available as part of the NYU Library's Ancient World Digital Library and in partnership with the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW).


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Stonehenge
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ISBN: 1107775507 1108076858 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Begun in 1874 and published in 1880, a detailed survey of the stones of Stonehenge was one of the earliest works of William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942), the energetic archaeologist who is remembered as a pioneering Egyptologist. It is reissued here alongside Sir Richard Colt Hoare's 1829 analysis of the barrows surrounding Stonehenge, thus giving modern readers a valuable two-part snapshot of nineteenth-century investigations into this famous site. Hoare (1758-1838), a Wiltshire baronet with a keen interest in archaeology and topography, conducted excavations on the site of the stones in the early 1800s, which were later referred to by Petrie, whose measurements were much more accurate (up to one tenth of an inch). Petrie's numbering system for the stones, as set out in this publication, is still in use today. Many of his groundbreaking works in Egyptology are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.


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On Aristotle On the heavens 1.2-3
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ISBN: 9780715639207 9781472557919 1472557913 071563920X Year: 2014 Publisher: London : Bloomsbury,

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One of the arguments in Aristotle's On the Heavens propounds that the world neither came to be nor will perish. This volume contains the pagan Neoplatonist Simplicius of Cilicia's commentary on the first part of this this important work. The commentary is notable and unusual because Simplicius includes in his discussion lengthy representations of the Christian John Philoponus' criticisms of Aristotle along with his own, frequently sarcastic, responses. This is the first complete translation into a modern language of Simplicius' commentary, and is accompanied by a detailed introduction, extensi.


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On Aristotle On the heavens 1.3-4
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ISBN: 9780715640630 9781472557957 1472557956 Year: 2014 Publisher: London : Bloomsbury,

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This is the first English translation of Simplicius' responses to Philoponus' Against Aristotle on the Eternity of the World. The commentary is published in two volumes: Ian Mueller's previous book in the series, Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 1.2-3, and this book on 1.3-4. Philoponusthe Christian, had argued that Aristotle's arguments do not succeed. For all they show to the contrary, Christianity may be right that the heavens were brought into existence by the only divine being and one moment in time, and will cease to exist at some future moment. Simplicius upholds the pagan view.


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"Conformément aux observations d'Hipparque" : le Papyrus Fouad inv. 267 A
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ISSN: 00761265 ISBN: 9789042930216 9782758402039 9042930217 2758402033 Year: 2014 Volume: 67 Publisher: Leuven Peeters

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Le Papyrus Fouad inv. 267 A est un document d'une importance exceptionnelle pour l'histoire de l'astronomie ancienne. Il s'agit d'un fragment de traité rédigé à Alexandrie vers 130 après Jésus-Christ. La partie conservée, qui occupe le recto et le verso d'un seul folio, concerne le Soleil dont la longitude est calculée en fonction de trois différentes années: l'année sidérale, l'année «moyenne» de 365 jours 1/4 et l'année tropique. Le texte donne un exemple pris le 9 novembre 130 p. C. à 3h depuis minuit. L'auteur se réfère aux observations d'Hipparque dont il mentionne une observation faite au solstice d'été en 158 avant Jésus-Christ. Le présent volume donne une description détaillée du papyrus, une édition diplomatique et une édition normalisée par Jean-Luc Fournet, ainsi qu'une traduction suivie de notes paléographiques et explicatives par Jean-Luc Fournet et Anne Tihon. Le commentaire par Anne Tihon suit le texte pas à pas et est accompagné d'un glossaire et de photos en couleur. Une annexe par Raymond Mercier donne une reconstruction des tables et une brève analyse mathématique.


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On Aristotle On the heavens 1.5-9
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ISBN: 0715632310 1472557425 9780715632314 9781472557421 9781472501110 147250111X 1472552245 Year: 2014 Publisher: London : Bloomsbury,

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Aristotle argues in On the Heavens 1.5-7 that there can be no infinitely large body, and in 1.8-9 that there cannot be more than one physical world. As a corollary in 1.9, he infers that there is no place, vacuum or time beyond the outermost stars. As one argument in favour of a single world, he argues that his four elements: earth, air, fire and water, have only one natural destination apiece. Moreover they accelerate as they approach it and acceleration cannot be unlimited. However, the Neoplatonist Simplicius, who wrote the commentary in the sixth century Ad (here translated into English), tells us that this whole world view was to be rejected by Strato, the third head of Aristotle's school. At the same time, he tells us the different theories of acceleration in Greek philosophy.

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