लेखक: N. M. Swerdlow

In the second millennium b.c., Babylonian scribes assembled a vast collection of astrological omens, believed to be signs from the gods concerning the kingdom’s political, military, and agricultural …

When I first laid out the framework for A History of Ancient Mathe- matical Astronomy, I intended to carry the discussion down to the last applications of Greek astronomical methodology, i. e. Copern …