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Brack-Bernsen, Lis

Babylonian House Numbers and Squares of Zodiacal Signs: The Origin of the Quadruplicities, Part I

Brack-Bernsen, Lis (2021) Babylonian House Numbers and Squares of Zodiacal Signs: The Origin of the Quadruplicities, Part I. Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science 2 (2), S. 43-58.

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DOI zum Zitieren dieses Dokuments: 10.5283/epub.57965


Zusammenfassung

BM 47762 is the rest of a circular tablet, which was divided into 12 sectors by lines from the center to the rim. Each sector was labelled by a zodiacal sign. Our tablet consists in part of the sectors IX, X, XI, and XII, which are concerned with the zodiacal signs of Sagittarius (month IX), Capricorn (month X), Aquarius (month XI), and Pisces (month XII). In lines 2 to 5 of each sector, some ...

BM 47762 is the rest of a circular tablet, which was divided into 12 sectors by lines from the center to the rim. Each sector was labelled by a zodiacal sign. Our tablet consists in part of the sectors IX, X, XI, and XII, which are concerned with the zodiacal signs of Sagittarius (month IX), Capricorn (month X), Aquarius (month XI), and Pisces (month XII). In lines 2 to 5 of each sector, some four numbers are written, which in pairs can be understood as a date (month, day) or as a position (sign, degree)—just as in the Dodecatemoria and its inverse, the Calendar Texts (Kalendertexte). The combination of number pairs on BM 47762 do not appear in those schemes. However, the difference between the pairs in lines 3, 4, and 5 is always equal to 277, a very special number which is known from the Calendar Texts. Evidently, our number pairs must somehow be connected to those number schemes. This paper investigates and finds a very interesting connection. It shows that all number pairs stand for dates, for which the Dodecatemoria scheme will give the position of the schematic Moon in its four important phases. The second number pairs refer to the months of the section, while the first pairs give the dates of the four important lunar phases three months earlier. The two dates on each line correspond to lunar positions taking place at almost the same position in the zodiac. The zodiacal signs of the lunar phases on days 7, 14, 21, and 28 join to squares which are mostly known from Greek astrology. For example, for month XI, the signs of the Moon have the numbers 2, 5, 8, and 11, i.e., the zodiacal square with 11 as one of the corners. Maybe we here have found the origin of the quadruplicities of the zodiacal signs.



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DokumentenartArtikel
Titel eines Journals oder einer ZeitschriftAestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science
Verlag:Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science
Band:2
Nummer des Zeitschriftenheftes oder des Kapitels:2
Seitenbereich:S. 43-58
Datum2021
InstitutionenPhilosophie, Kunst-, Geschichts- und Gesellschaftswissenschaften > Institut für Philosophie > Entpflichtete oder im Ruhestand befindliche Professoren > Lehrstuhl für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Christoph Meinel)
Identifikationsnummer
WertTyp
10.33137/aestimatio.v2i2.39087DOI
Stichwörter / KeywordsBabylonian astronomy/astrology, lunarphases,Dodecatemoria (mean­value scheme), squares of zodiacal signs
Dewey-Dezimal-Klassifikation500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 520 Astronomie
900 Geschichte und Geografie > 900 Geschichte
StatusVeröffentlicht
BegutachtetUnbekannt / Keine Angabe
An der Universität Regensburg entstandenJa
URN der UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-579652
Dokumenten-ID57965

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