HartnerWilly, Die Goldhörner von Gallehus (Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1969). Pp. xii + 115. DM 38.
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Fortunately 25 of Hartner's papers from the period 1934–1967 have been brought together in his Oriens-Occidens: Selected papers on the history of science and culture (Verlag Georg Olms, Hildesheim, 1968). This collection is a treasury to which the historian of astronomy will constantly refer. Two of the papers are of particular importance for the decisive §§ 7, 8 of the present work: “The earliest history of the constellations in the Near East and the motif of the Lion-Bull combat”, formerly published in Journal of Near Eastern studies, xxiv (1965), and “The pseudoplanetary nodes of the Moon's orbit in Hindu and Islamic iconographies”, reprinted from Ars Islamica, v (1939), 114–154. Another paper of fundamental importance both for the history of planetary theory and for the study of the roots of astrological beliefs is “The Mercury Horoscope of Marcantonio Michiel of Venice”, which first appeared in Vistas in astronomy, ed. BeerA., i (London, 1955), 84–138.
