Ancient Egyptian Science: A Source Book, Volume 214Marshall Clagett's three-volume study of various aspects of science of Ancient Egypt. Volume 1 concentrates on the origin and development of hieroglyphic writing, the scribal profession, and quasi-learned institutions in ancient Egypt. Professor Clagett has paid particular attention to the so-called Palermo Stone, the earliest annals composed in Egypt. Volume 2 covers calendars, clocks, and astronomical monuments. Volume 3 gives a discourse on the nature and accomplishments of Egyptian mathematics and also informs the reader as to how our knowledge of Egyptian mathematics has grown since the publication of the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus toward the end of the 19th century. |
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ägyptischen Akhet altägyptische Zeitmessung Amenhotep ancient Egyptian astronomical ceiling Borchardt Brugsch celestial diagram Chronologie civil calendar coffin column constellations decanal stars decans Decree of Canopus deities depicted Determined Document III.3 Duamutef Duat Dynasty Ebers Calendar Edfu Egypt Egyptian Astronomical Texts epagomenal days festival given glyph Heart i.e. heliacal rising hieroglyphic Hippopotamus Horus Hour hourly decans Ibid IIII inflow clock inscription Jahre Karnak Left Eye i.e. Lepsius lunar calendar lunar month Medina Habu middle Monat Neugebauer and Parker night nighttime northern constellations old lunar Opposite the Heart Orion Papyrus Peret Plate Ramesses Ramesses III Ramesses IV Ramesseum Ramesside star clock reign Right Eye i.e. rising of Sirius rising of Sothis sb'n season Senmut Sethe Seti shadow clock Shemu Shoulder i.e. solstice Sothis star clock temple third register Thoth tomb tpy-c translation vertical water clock wp rnpt zodiac καὶ
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Page 421 - Nous avons donc ici une table des influences, analogue à celle qu'on avait gravée sur le fameux cercle doré du monument d'Osimandyas, et qui donnait, comme le dit Diodore de Sicile, les heures du lever des constellations avec les influences de chacune d'elles. Cela démontrera sans réplique
Page 421 - Ce sont des tables des constellations et de leurs influences pour toutes les heures de chaque mois de l'année; elles sont ainsi conçues: "Mois de Tôbi, la dernière moitié. — Orion domine et influe sur l'oreille gauche. "Heure
Page 407 - days. Each column contains thirteen entries, one for the beginning of the night, and one for each of the twelve hours. Throughout the Calendar a star occurs in one of seven positions, "the middle," the right eye, ear or shoulder, or the left eye, ear or shoulder. The position is not merely described in words, but
Page 412 - some years back, first of all to ascertain the date at which the Calendar was drawn up, and, secondly, to identify a certain number of the asterisms which it contains. The method which I adopted was this: "Whatever may have been the length of the Egyptian hours of the night, the sixth
Page 413 - This inference of date," as the Astronomer Royal remarks, "is necessarily a very vague one but from the whole nature of the case a vague date is all that can be asked for. It is sufficient for us to know that the Calendar records observations
Page 518 - (1924), pp. 43-50. Sloley, RW, "Primitive Methods of Measuring Time with Special Reference to Egypt," The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology,
Page 413 - The approximate date of the Calendar being known, the next question is, what remarkable stars at that date culminated at the intervals before and after Sirius, which are assigned by the Calendar to its asterisms? And finding, for instance, that in 1450 BC the approximate Right Ascension of
Page 422 - dissertation. The fundamental hypothesis of this dissertation is that the Calendar is a record, for astrological purposes, of the risings of stars and constellations. This hypothesis Is entirely without foundation in the Egyptian text, which contains no allusion whatever either to astrology or to risings of stars. M.
Page 408 - month, and two hours later on the thirty-first night, cannot possibly be many degrees distant from the meridian at the eleventh hour of the sixteenth night. This is true, even upon the supposition that the hours of the Calendar may vary in length according to the season.