Titlebook: Astronomy and History Selected Essays; O. Neugebauer Book 1983 Springer Science+Business Media New York 1983 Altertum /Naturwissenschaften

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The Study of Wretched SubjectsBook of the Zodiac” which is characterized by the reviewer as “a wretched collection of omens, debased astrology and miscellaneous nonsense.” Because this factually correct statement. does not tell the whole story, I want to amplify it by a few remarks to explain to the reader why a serious scholar

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The Origin of the Egyptian Calendaristory, the Hellenistic astronomers adopted the Egyptian year for their calculations. Ptolemy based all his tables in the . on Egyptian years; even as late as . 1543 Copernicus in . used Egyptian years. The explanation of this fact is very simple: astronomers are practical-minded people who do not c

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The Egyptian “Decans”visible for 70 days. Such stars belong to a zone south of the ecliptic and include Sirius and Orion. The use of the decans for time measurement at night leads to a twelve-division of the period of complete darkness. From this is eventually derived the twenty-four division of day and night.