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May 15, 2024 · The year 1881 marks the birth of Babylonian astronomy as a modern area of scholarship with the first publication about this topic. From the outset, its scholarly practices were based on a variety of methods rooted in Assyriology, astronomy, mathematics and the history of science. In this chapter, the editing practices that were applied to ...
May 15, 2024 · Abstract. This introductory chapter gives an overview of the research questions raised in the book as much for historians of science as for anyone working with, or producing editions of, ancient scholarly texts. It highlights the benefits that flow from a worldwide history of textual criticism and editions as well as from a focus on texts ...
May 15, 2024 · Footnote 7 All these elements make it possible to determine with a relative degree of accuracy where works written by ancient Greek mathematicians first appeared and which scientific circles undertook to circulate them. A great amount of additional information confirms the activity of these circles.
May 15, 2024 · There are altogether about 6000 manuscripts of Sumerian literature in the larger sense from the first half of the second millennium, and about 4000 represent literary compositions in the narrower sense that I am speaking of today. Over 80% of these manuscripts were excavated at Nippur, and another 10% were found at Ur.
May 15, 2024 · Premodern Indian philology in the sense of ecdotics and interpretation begins late in the scholarly tradition, at the end of the first millennium CE. Although the knowledge form was entirely unsystematized, a philological theory can be derived from commentarial practices. These are reviewed and synthesized across the principal genres, and the ...
23 hours ago · Pope Gregory I (Latin: Gregorius I; c. 540 – 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the 64th Bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 to his death. [1] [a] He is known for instituting the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregorian mission , to convert the then largely pagan Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. [2]
23 hours ago · A different king from earlier Ethiopian regnal lists, usually named "Sebado", was the successor of Zagdur and ruler of Ethiopia for 50 years. In Morié's narrative, this king was a combination of several different figures from Greek mythology, with the name "Nekhti" being inspired by Nycteus.
