In the Path of the Moon: Babylonian Celestial Divination and Its Legacy Hardcover - 2010
by Francesca Rochberg
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Celestial divination, in the form of omens from lunar, planetary, astral, and meteorological phenomena, was central to Mesopotamian cuneiform scholarship and science from the late second millennium BCE into the Hellenistic period. Beyond the boundaries of ancient Mesopotamia, the ideas, texts, and traditions of Babylonian celestial divination are traceable in Hellenistic sciences and philosophies. This collection of essays investigates features of Babylonian celestial divination with special focus on those aspects that influenced later Greco-Roman astronomy, astrology, and theories of signs. A multi-faceted collection of philological, historical, and philosophical investigations, "In the Path of the Moon" offers Assyriologists, Classicists, and historians of ancient science a wide-ranging series of studies unified around the theme of Babylonian celestial divination's legacy.
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- Title In the Path of the Moon: Babylonian Celestial Divination and Its Legacy
- Author Francesca Rochberg
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First
- Pages 472
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Brill, Leiden/Boston
- Date 2010
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9789004183896 / 9004183892
- Weight 2 lbs (0.91 kg)
- Dimensions 9.7 x 6.5 x 1.2 in (24.64 x 16.51 x 3.05 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010002805
- Dewey Decimal Code 133.592
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- Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2010, Page 10
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