A Study of Babylonian Observations Involving the Zodiac

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Jones A. , “A study of Babylonian observations of planets near Normal Stars”, Archive for history of exact sciences, lviii (2004), 475–536.

Roughton N. A. Steele J. M. , and Walker C. B. F. , “A late Babylonian Normal and Ziqpu Star text”, Archive for history of exact sciences, lviii (2004), 537–72; and Sachs A. , “A late Babylonian star catalogue”, Journal of cuneiform studies, vi (1952), 1952–50.

On the classification of Babylonian astronomical texts, see Sachs A. , “A classification of Babylonian astronomical tablets of the Seleucid period”, Journal of cuneiform studies, ii (1948), 271–90. All datable Astronomical Diaries have been published by Sachs A. J. Hunger H. , Astronomical diaries and related texts from Babylonia, i—iii (Vienna, 1988, 1989, 1996). Lunar and planetary texts have been published by Hunger H. , Astronomical diaries and related texts from Babylonia, v (Vienna, 2001) and Goal Year Texts have been published by Hunger H. , Astronomical diaries and related texts from Babylonia, vi (Vienna, 2006). Copies of many Almanacs and Normal Star Almanacs, with references to further examples published elsewhere, are included in Sachs A. , Late Babylonian astronomical and related texts (Providence, 1955). Tablets published in vols i to iii of Astronomical diaries and related texts are cited here using the form ‘Diary No. x’, those in vols v and vi as ‘ADART V/VI No. x’, and those in Late Babylonian astronomical and related texts as ‘LBAT x’.

Parker R. A. Dubberstein W. H. , Babylonian chronology 626 B.C. — A.D. 75, 3rd edn (Providence, 1956).

Bretagnon P. Simon J. L. Laskar J. , “Presentation of new solar and planetary tables of interest for historical calculations”, Journal for the history of astronomy, xvi (1985), 39–50. We thank F. R. Stephenson for providing us with a copy of his FORTRAN program.

Jones , op. cit. (ref. 3), 499–511.

Steele , op. cit. (ref. 1).

Huber , op. cit (ref. 2).

See, for example, Rochberg F. , Babylonian horoscopes (Philadelphia, 1998), 19–20.

Sachs , op. cit. (ref. 5).

Rochberg-Halton F. , “Between observation and theory in Babylonian astronomical texts”, Journal of Near Eastern studies, l (1991), 109–11.

Swerdlow N. M. , The Babylonian theory of the planets (Princeton, 1998), 42–48; Hollywood L. A. , “A study of late Babylonian planetary records”, M.Sc. thesis, University of Durham, 2002.