Description: Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia : Goal Year Texts, Hardcover by Hunger, Hermann (EDT); Sachs, Abraham J. (CON), ISBN 3700137273, ISBN-13 9783700137276, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This volume presents an edition of cuneiform tablets with lunar and planetary data from the 3rd century to the 1st century . Most of these data are observations, in all likelihood excerpted from Astronomical Diaries of the kind published in Vols. I to III. Planetary phenomena reoccur after a certain number of years on almost the same calendar date within the Babylonian year. The number of years is quite easy to calculate if one has observations of planetary phenomena such as those in the Diaries; this period is different for each planet. The so-called goal-year texts collect observations one period earlier than the year for which the text is intended. This enables quite good predictions of the planet positions on particular calendar dates. The texts were probably also used by Babylonian astronomers to investigate periodically recurring phenomena, in order to discover means of computing them in advance.
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Book Title: Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia : Goal Year
Number of Pages: 471 Pages
Publication Name: Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia Vol. VI : Goal Year Texts
Language: English
Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Publication Year: 2006
Item Height: 1.7 in
Subject: Archaeology, Ancient / General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 62.7 Oz
Item Length: 11.9 in
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Author: Hermann Hunger
Series: Denkschriften Der Philosophisch-Historischen Klasse Ser.
Item Width: 8.5 in
Format: Hardcover
