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Mathematical astronomy in Babylonia

research project: D-1-1

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2014
May 14, 20144th Regensburg Workshop on Mesopotamian Astral Sciences
Workshop
Apr 11, 2014Late Antique Astronomy in Syria: Heritage, Contacts and Particularities
Workshop

Research Group

Space of nature

Dissertation

The history of positional astronomy. From the Babylonian sources on stellar positions to the Greek reception by Hipparchus and Ptolemy.

Members

Gordon Fischer
Gerd Graßhoff
Mathieu Ossendrijver
Stefanie Rudolf
Emilie Villey

Doctoral Fellow

Susanne M. Hoffmann



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