The Recovery Of Babylonian Astronomy by Gary D. Thompson
Copyright © 2009-2011 by Gary D. Thompson
The Recovery of Babylonian Astronomy
Strassmaier, Epping, Kugler, and Schaumberger: A History and Legacy of Their Co-operative Pioneering Effort to Recover Babylonian Astronomy
by Gary D. Thompson
Note: Material will be largely entered in the order in which it appears in any randomly selected notebook.
Section One (1): Introduction.
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Section Two (2): Acquisition of Cuneiform Tablets by the British Museum.
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Section Three (3): The Jesuits and Science in the 19th-Century, the “Jesuitengezetz.”
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Section Four (4): The Strassmaier Era - Johann Strassmaier.
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Section Five (5): Joseph Epping.
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Section Six (6): (Joseph Hontheim and) Franz Kugler, Franz Kugler and Panbabylonism.
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Section Seven (7): Johann Schaumberger.
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Section Eight (8): Peter Jensen, Robert Brown Junior, Carl Bezold, Ernst Weidner, Arthur Ungnad, Antonie Pannekoek, and Felix Gössmann, etc.
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Section Nine (9): The Pinches Era - Otto Neugebauer and Abraham Sachs (and Theophilus Pinches).
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Section Ten (10): The Modern Era - David Pingree and Erica Reiner, David Pingree and Hermann Hunger.
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Section Eleven (11): Johannes Koch, Ulla Koch-Westenholz, Wayne Horowitz, Gerd Graßhoff, and David Brown, etc.
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Section Twelve (12): Conclusion.
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