Ancient Egyptian Science: A Source BookAmerican Philosophical Society, 1989 - 575 ページ The 2nd of 3 vols. by Prof. Marshall Clagett on Ancient Egyptian Science. Contents: Part I: Intro. to Egyptian Calendars; Parker's Account of the Old Lunar Calendar; The Later Lunar Calendar; The Origin of the Civil Calendar; Sothic Dates & the Ebers Calendar; The Night Hours; Decanal Clocks; Transit Decanal Clocks; The Ramesside Star Clock; Outflow Water Clocks; Inflow Water Clocks; Shadow Clocks; Egyptian Sundials; Traces of a 24-hour Day with Equal Hours; Astronomical Ceilings & Other Monuments; The Ceiling of the Secret Tomb of Senmut; The Vaulted Ceiling of Hall K in Seti I's Tomb; Egyptian Zodiacs. Part II: Documents. Part III: Bibliography & Indexes. Part IV: Illustrations. |
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ägyptischen Akhet altägyptische Zeitmessung Amenhotep ancient Egyptian astronomical ceiling beginning Borchardt Brugsch celestial diagram Chronologie civil calendar coffin column constellations decanal stars decans Decree of Canopus deities Dendera depicted Determined Document III.3 Duamutef Duat Dynasty Ebers Calendar Edfu Egypt Egyptian Astronomical Texts epagomenal days festival fingerbreadths given glyph Hathor Heart i.e. heliacal rising hieroglyphic Hippopotamus Horus Hour hourly decans Ibid IIII inflow clock inscription Jahre Karnak Lepsius lunar calendar lunar month Medina Habu meridian middle Monat Neugebauer and Parker night nighttime northern constellations old lunar Opposite the Heart Orion Papyrus Peret Plate Ramesses Ramesses IV Ramesseum Ramesside star clock reign Right Eye i.e. rising of Sirius rising of Sothis scales season Senmut Sethe Seti shadow clock Shemu Shoulder i.e. solstice Sothis spdt star clock temple third register Thoth tomb tpy-C translation vertical water clock wp rnpt zodiac
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421 ページ - 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
421 ページ - 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
407 ページ - 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
412 ページ - 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
413 ページ - 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
518 ページ - (1924), pp. 43-50. Sloley, RW, "Primitive Methods of Measuring Time with Special Reference to Egypt," The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology,
413 ページ - 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
422 ページ - 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.
408 ページ - 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.