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Astronomy in the Old Testament

Schiaparelli, G. V. (Giovanni Virginio), 1835-1910 · 1905 · Oxford : Clarendon Press · 4 pictures

A 1905 Oxford Clarendon Press English translation of Giovanni Schiaparelli's study of Hebrew astronomy and cosmology in the Old Testament, written for biblical scholars and historians of science. Line drawings copy Babylonian and Assyrian sun-disks, star rosettes and a boundary-stone tablet crowded with animals and emblems, plus a hatched cross-section diagram of the ancient universe with lettered keys.

Astronomy in the Bible · Jewish astronomy

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