2013-07-17

Literatúra k astronómii a kozmológii národov v starovekej Mezopotámii

V nasledujúcom zozname literatúry sa nachádzajú najrelevantnejšie knihy k dejinám astronómie a kozmológie u národov v oblasti Mezopotámie (obzvlášť Babylonskej ríše).

AABOE, Asger.: Episodes from the History of Astronomy. New York, Springer, 2001, s. 2465. ISBN 9780387951362.

AABOE, Asger.: Scientific Astronomy in Antiquity. In: F. R. Hodson (ed./publ.) The Place of Astronomy in the Ancient World. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. London, séria A, 1974, zv. 276, č. 1257, s. 21–42.

BRITTON, J. P – WALKER, Christopher B. F.: Astronomy and Astrology in Mesopotamia. In: Christopher Walker (ed.) Astronomy Before the Telescope. London : British Museum Press, 1996, s. 42–67. ISBN 0-7141-1746-3.

BROWN, David: Mesopotamian Astral Science. In: Gwendolyn Leick (ed.):  The Babylonian World. New York : Routledge, 2007, s. 460–472.

BROWN, David: Mesopotamian Planetary Astronomy-Astrology. Groningen : STYX, 2000, XII+303 s. ISBN 90-5693-036-2

EVANS, James: History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy. Oxford University Press, 1998, 480 s. ISBN 0-19-509539-1.

HORROWITZ, Wayne: Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography. Winona Lake (Ind.) : Eisenbrauns, 1998, 410 s. ISBN 0-931464-99-4.

HUNGER, Hermann – PINGREE, David Edwin: Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia. Leiden – Boston – Köln : Brill, 1999, 303 s. ISBN 90-04-10127-6.

HUNGER, Hermann – PINGREE, David Edwin: MUL.APIN: An Astronomical Compendium in Cuneiform. Horn : Berger, 1989, XXVIII+164 s.

HUNGER, Hermann: "Non-Mathematical Astronomical Texts and their Relationships. In: Noel M. Swerdlow: Ancient Astronomy and Celestial Divination. Cambridge (Mass.) : MIT Press, 1999. s. 77–96. ISBN 9780585231426.

KELLEY, David H. – MILONE, Eugene F.: Exploring ancient skies. A Survey of Ancient and Cultural Astronomy. 2nd ed., Springer, s. 211–239. ISBN 978-1-4419-7623-9.

LAMBERT, W. G.: The Cosmology of Sumer and Babylon. In: Carmen Blacker and Michael Loewe (ed.) Ancient Cosmologies. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1975, s. 42–65. ISBN 0-04-100038-2.

NEUGEBAUER, Otto: Astronomical Cuneiform Texts: Babylonian ephemerides of the Seleucid period for the motion of the sun, the moon, and the planets. 3 zv. New York : Springer-Verlag, 1983. ISBN 9780387908120.

NEUGEBAUER, Otto: History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy. zv. 1. Berlin – Heidelberg – New York : Springer, 1975, s. 347 – 555. ISBN 3-540-06995-X.

NEUGEBAUER, Otto: The Exact Sciences in Antiquity. New York : Harper Torchbook, 1962, s. 97–144.

NORTH, John D.: Cosmos – An Illustrated History of Astronomy and Cosmology. Chicago – London : University of Chicago Press, 2008, s. 36 – 66.

OPPENHEIM, A. Leo: Man and Nature in Mesopotamian Civilization. In: Charles Coulston Gillispie (ed.) Dictionary of Scientific Biography zv. 15, New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1970–1981, s. 634–680. ISBN 0-684-16970-3.

OSSENDRIJVER, Mathieu: Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy: Procedure Texts. New York : Springer, 2012, XXVI+615 s. ISBN 9781461437826.

ROCHBERG, Francesca: Mesopotamian Cosmology. In: Norriss Hetherington (ed.): Cosmology – Historical, Literary, Philosophical, Religious, and Scientific Perspectives. New York – London : Garland, 1993, s. 37–52. ISBN 0-8153-1085-4.

ROCHBERG, Francesca: Observing and Describing the World through Divination and Astronomy. In: Karen Radner – Eleanor Robson (ed.): The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture. Oxford University Press, 2011, s. 618–636.

ROCHBERG, Francesca: The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture. Cambridge University Press, 2004, 331 s. ISBN 9780521830102.

RUGGLES, Clive N.: Ancient Astronomy – An Encyclopedia of Cosmologies and Myth. Santa Barbara – Denver – Oxford : ABC Clio, 2005, 518 s. ISBN 1-85109-477-6.

SACHS, A. J. – HUNGER, Hermann: Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylon. 6 zv. Wien : Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1988 – 2006.

SACHS, Abraham J.: Babylonian Observational Astronomy. In: F. R. Hodson (ed./publ.) The Place of Astronomy in the Ancient World. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. London, séria A, 1974, zv. 276, č. 1257, s. 43–50.

SELIN, Helaine (ed.): Astronomy across Cultures. Dordrecht : Kluwer, 2000, s. 509–554.

SELIN, Helaine (ed.): Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. 2 vols. Berlin – Heidelberg – New York : Springer-Verlag, 2008, 2416 s. ISBN 978-1-4020-4559-2.

STEELE, John M.: Eclipse Prediction in Mesopotamia. In: Archive for History of Exact Sciences. rok 2000, roč. 54, č. 5, s. 421–454.

STEELE, John M.: Goal Year Periods and their Use in Predicting Planetary Phenomena. In: Gebhard J. Selz (ed.): The Empirical Dimension of Ancient Near Eastern Studies. Wien – Berlin – Münster : LIT, 2011, s.101–110.

STEELE, John M.: A Brief Introduction to Astronomy in the Middle East. London – San Francisco : Saqi, 2008, 153 s. ISBN 9780863564284.

STEELE, John M.: Making Sense of Time: Observational and Theoretical Calendars. In: Karen Radner – Eleanor Robson (ed.): The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture. Oxford University Press, 2011, s. 470–485.

THURSTON, Hugh: Early astronomy. New York : Springer, 1994, s. 64–81.

VAN DER WAERDEN, Bartel Leendert: Science Awakening 2: The Birth of Astronomy. New York : Oxford University Press, 1961. 306 s.

WRIGHT, Mary Rosemary: Cosmology in Antiquity. New York : Routledge, 1995, 201 s. ISBN 0-415-08372-9.

Podrobnejší zoznam literatúry uvádza Robert Harry van Gent:
http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/babylon/babybibl.htm