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

Brack-Bernsen, Lis (2022) Babylonian House Numbers and Squares of Zodiacal Signs: The Origin of the Quadruplicities, Part II. Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science 3 (1), S. 97-119.

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DOI zum Zitieren dieses Dokuments: 10.5283/epub.57966


Zusammenfassung

The texts BM 36628+ and BM 45720 contain number schemes, which in their first four columns list consecutive lines of Calendar Texts. These texts add six more columns (columns 5–10) to the classic Calendar Text. Therefore, we shall call them expanded Calendar Texts. The additional column 10 lists house numbers j, while column 9 contains four signs (labeled i) over four consecutive lines, one of ...

The texts BM 36628+ and BM 45720 contain number schemes, which in their first four columns list consecutive lines of Calendar Texts. These texts add six more columns (columns 5–10) to the classic Calendar Text. Therefore, we shall call them expanded Calendar Texts. The additional column 10 lists house numbers j, while column 9 contains four signs (labeled i) over four consecutive lines, one of which equals a j-value. As we shall see, the i-values are chosen so that they always form the zodiacal squares with j as one of the corners. I investigate the system behind the schemes by analyzing their number columns. We thus find a structure similar to that of the circular tablet BM 47762, which I presented in Part I [Aestimatio ns 2.2 (2021) 43–58]. This tablet lists the dates of first half, full, second half, and black Moon, where the zodiacal position of these special lunar phases joins to a square in the zodiacal circle. I investigate the connection between the two systems.



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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:3
Nummer des Zeitschriftenheftes oder des Kapitels:1
Seitenbereich:S. 97-119
Datum2022
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.v3i1.41816DOI
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-579669
Dokumenten-ID57966

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