On May 4, 11:09 pm, Ben wrote:
On May 4, 4:12 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" wrote:



Did Allen consult the work of Erica Reiner, David Pingree, and
Francesca Rochberg (among others) that was published between 1980 and
today? Not to mention Otto Neugebauer, Abraham Sachs, and Hermann
Hunger?

No, he refers to several classical sources: Virgil, Cicero,
Hipparchus, Hyginus, Ovid and Theon Junior and (more
recently) Pickering, Admiral Smyth and Hyde's translation
of Ulug Beg's `Tables'.

Do you still not grasp that a book published a century ago is likely
not to contain the most up-to-date information?

I consulted Michael Grant, Joseph Campbell,
George Autenreith (Univ Of Oklahoma) and Sir James Frazer
and found little to enchance the topic save my own
speculation.

None of the three of whom I've heard of is a specialist, and none of
them is competent in Akkadian or Arabic.

Did any of the sources you cited have anything to say
about any of the names Nicki furnished? I would be
interested to know. Archeoastronomy fascinates
me but I don't really have the time to attend to it like
I want to.

How should I know?? They're the authors of standard works on
Mesopotamian astronomy.