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mathieu ossendrijver is Professor for the the ancient exact sciences are the main subject
History of Ancient Science at Humboldt-Universität in this collection of papers, offered in honor of Lis

Studies on the
zu Berlin since 2013. His research is mainly devoted to Brack-Bernsen by her colleagues and friends. The topics
Babylonian astral science and mathematics, with of the articles are linked by the themes that have been
a focus on mathematical astronomy and contextual at the center of much of Lis’s own work: the Babylo-

Ancient Exact Sciences

aspects of Late Babylonian scholarship. nian observational record, and the relationship between
observation and theory; the gnomon, sundials, and
john m. steele is Professor of Egyptology and time measurement; and the relationship between differ-

in Honor of
Assyriology at Brown University. A historian of the ent scientific activities in the ancient world, especially
exact sciences in antiquity, he specializes in the history the connections between mathematics and astronomy.
of astronomy, with a particular focus on Babylonian Lis Brack-Bernsen has been a key figure in transform-

Lis Brack-Bernsen
ing the study of Babylonian astronomy from an almost

Studies on the Ancient Exact Sciences

astronomy. He is the editor of the bookseries Scientific
Writings from the Ancient and Medieval World, exclusive focus on the mathematical astronomy of the
and an advisory editor of the Journal for the History late period to embracing a much broader consideration
of Astronomy. of all aspects of the subject, both early and late, math-
ematical and observational, astronomical and astrolog-
ical, and their relationships between one another. The
papers demonstrate the wide variety of questions asked
and approaches used by historians of ancient science.
John M. Steele
Mathieu Ossendrijver
(eds.)

Ossendrijver / Steele (eds.)

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