1997, ISBN: 0788502743

[EAN: 9780788502743], Tweedehands, zeer goed, [SC: 9.93], [PU: U.S.A.: Oxford University Press. 01.05.1997.], XX, 236 Seiten / p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780788502743], Tweedehands, zeer goed, [SC: 9.93], [PU: U.S.A.: Oxford University Press. 01.05.1997.], XX, 236 Seiten / p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - PREFACE -- This work is the product of a unique collaboration between a classicist and a physicist that began in 1993. It is our hope that the melding of these two fields will help to further our understanding of the spectacular, daylight comet that was observed in 44 B.C. during the games that the future emperor Augustus gave in honor of the late Julius Caesar. That comet possesses great historical significance because it came to be interpreted as a sign of Caesar’s apotheosis, and it has been celebrated and written about over the course of many centuries. The Chinese too observed what was most likely this same comet and had their own view of its significance. We are fortunate to have this independent evidence of a sighting in 44, untainted by any suspicion that it could have been invented merely to lend greater historical significance to Caesar’s murder on the Ides (15th) of March. In Italy, the comet caught the fancy, it seems, of contemporary astrologers and prophets, and centuries later it intrigued the scientific minds of Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Edmund Halley. -- To do justice to this multifaceted topic, our study must range well beyond the traditional bounds of classical scholarship, and keeping in mind the breadth of the audience for which this work is intended, we have tried to make it accessible to readers and scholars in many fields besides our own. We have translated into English all texts quoted in Greek or Latin; with the help of colleagues, we have consulted the relevant Chinese and Korean sources in the original and have provided fresh, accurate translations rather than relying upon older and often misleading English versions of those texts; and we have written precis to introduce sections of the discussion that have a technical, scientific nature. We have also taken great care to assemble, translate, and annotate in Appendix I what is intended to be the most comprehensive collection to date of Greco-Roman sources having to do with the comet of 44, its interpretation, and later fame (36 texts in all: nos. 1-33 + 1A, 3A, and 11 A). ISBN 9780788502743 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 360 23,1 x 2,0 x 15,2 cm, Broschiert / Paperback., Books<

1997, ISBN: 9780788502743

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1997, ISBN: 9780788502743

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