The Journal of the American Oriental Society, April 1st, 2001
Astronomical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus. By ALEXANDER JONES. 2 vols. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 223. Philadelphia: AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 1999. Pp. xii + 368, 471, 12 plates. $50. Around the turn of the twentieth century, the pioneering work of Fathers J. Epping, S.J., and F. X. Kugler, S.J., showed that there existed in antiquity an astronomical tradition that was different than that known to us from the work of Ptolemy and his successors. Cuneiform tablets recovered from Babylon and Uruk contained details of an astronomy that was both observational and computa...
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