Studies in Premodern Sciences in Memory of Noel M. Swerdlow

Part I: Babylonia.- 1 Early Babylonian Astronomy: Observations and Numerical Fits (Lis Brack-Bernsen).- 2 Neo-Assyrian Investigations into the Prediction of Eclipses (John Steele).- 3 Babylonian Horoscopy and Genethlialogy (Francesca Rochberg).- Part II: Greece.- 4 What Plato Meant by Saying That God Is Always Doing Geometry: Responses to the Question Posed by Plutarch in Table-Talk 8.2 (Liba Taub).- 5 Ptolemy’s Almagest and the Philosophical Schools of the Second Century CE: Apuleius of Madaura (Alan C. Bowen).- Part III: India.- 6 Visual Representations and Intertextualities in Second Millennium Sanskrit Eclipse Reckoning (Clemency Montelle).- Part IV: Europe.- 7 Levi ben Gerson’s Models for the Latitudes of Saturn and Jupiter (Robert Morrison).- 8 Calculating the Length of Life in Sixteenth-Century Europe: Arabic Astrology and Humanist Reforms (Margaret Gaida).- 9 Albertus Magnus’s First Lunar Model (Betsey Price).- 10 Historical Chronology before Joseph Scaliger: Jean Bodin and His Discussion Partners (Anthony Grafton).- 11 Writing “Celestial History” in Early Modern Europe (Florence Hsia).

• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.02.2026
• Autor/Autorin: Francesca Rochberg
• Reihe: Philosophy and Religion (R0)
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