Hermann Hunger
Observation of Halley's Comet, recorded in cuneiform on a clay tablet between 22 and 28 September 164 BCE, Babylon, Iraq. British Museum.[1]
Hermann Hunger (born 1942), an Austrian Assyriologist, Professor of Assyriology at the University of Vienna, until his retirement (2007).[2] He has been recognized as a leading authority on Babylonian astronomy and celestial omens.[3]
Hunger translated a cuneiform tablet from the Babylonian astronomical diaries that describes the appearance of Halley's Comet in 163 BCE.[4]
Published
- Mul.Apin, 1989 (with David Pingree). Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia (Handbook of Oriental Studies/Handbuch Der Orientalistik), 1999 (with David Pingree).
- Astronomical Diaries And Related Texts From Babylonia, 2006.[5]
References
- ↑ Entry at the British Museum Collection Database.
- ↑ Entry at Austrian Academy of Sciences
- ↑ "Biographies of Modern Historians of Ancient Occidental Astral Sciences" by Gary D. Thompson (retrieved April 27, 2015)
- ↑ G. Kronk (1999). Cometography, vol.1. Cambridge University Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-521-58504-0.
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