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Astronomy, Weather, and Calendars in the Ancient World: Parapegmata and Related Texts in Classical and Near-Eastern Societies

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 | #3323295 in Books |  Cambridge University Press |  2012-07-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.61 x1.18 x6.69l,2.03 | File type: PDF | 582 pages

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|| |"Professor Lehoux laudably serves scholars and all others with an interest in ancient astonomy and calendrics in the first large-scale study of parapegmata to appear in over half a century...[a] highly useful work. It will make a valuable addition to any univ

The focus of this book is the interplay between ancient astronomy, meteorology, physics and calendrics. It looks at a set of popular instruments and texts (parapegmata) used in antiquity for astronomical weather prediction and the regulation of day-to-day life. Farmers, doctors, sailors and others needed to know when the heavens were conducive to various activities, and they developed a set of fairly sophisticated tools and texts for tracking temporal, astronomical and w...

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