Contributions

  • Tihon, Anne, author - Contributor
  • Mercier, Raymond, writer of supplementary textual content - Contributor
  • Société Fouad I de papyrologie (Cairo, Egypt) - Contributor

Publication

2014 - Université catholique de Louvain, Institut orientaliste, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Language

French

Word Count

47,500 words, Guess

Page Count

190 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-109042930217
  • ISBN-102758402033
  • ISBN-139789042930216
  • ISBN-139782758402039
  • Library of Congress Control Number2014451378
and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC520
  • LCCQB21 .F697 2014
  • LCCQB21.F697 2014

Alternate Titles

  • Papyrus Fouad inv. 267 A

Description

"The Papyrus Fouad inv. 267A, a document of exceptional importance for the history of ancient astromony, consists of a fragment of a treatise written in Alexandria around 130 A.D. The preserved part, which occupies the recto and verso of a single folio, deals with the Sun, whose longitude is calculated according to three different years: the sidereal year, the "mean year" of 365 and 1/4 days, and the tropical year."--

Subjects

Topics

Places

People

Hipparchus (active 190 B.C.-127 B.C)

Series Statement

  • Publications de l'Institut orientaliste de Louvain -- 67

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