Astronomical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus (Vol. I and II): Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 233)

by Alexander Jones

Presents 200 hitherto unpub. astronomical texts & horoscopes written in Greek on papyrus, which were excavated a century ago in the rubbish heaps of Oxyrhynchus, a district capital of Roman Egypt. Through these documents we obtain the first coherent picture of the range of astronomical activity, chiefly in the service of astrology, during the Roman Empire. The astronomy of this period turns out to have been much more varied than we previously thought,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871692333
• ISBN13: 9780871692337
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 839 Pages