The Sky Turned Black by John Steele

The Sky Turned Black by John Steele

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The Sky Turned Black by John Steele

'HARD-BOILED AND CRACKLING WITH INTENSITY. JOHN STEELE GETS UNDER THE SKIN OF THE NYPD AS WELL AS ANYONE WRITING TODAY' T. J. English 'DARK, HARD-HITTING AND FAST MOVING' Thomas Mullen *** CALLUM BURKE'S BIGGEST CASE YET COULD BE HIS LAST...

Christine Proust is a Senior Researcher at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris). Her primary focus is on the history of mathematics in the Ancient Near East, more specifically on mathematical cuneiform texts from different periods. She published Tablettes Mathü¾Ž–”¼matiques de Nippur (De Boccard, 2007) and she co-edited with Alain Bernard Scientific Sources and Teaching Contexts throughout History: Problems and Perspectives (Springer 2014), and with Alexander Jones and John Steele A Mathematician's Journeys: Otto Neugebauer and Modern Transformations of Ancient Science (Springer, 2016).

John Steele is Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity at the Department of Egyptology and Assyriology, Brown University. His research focuses on the history of the astral sciences in Babylonia and related traditions. He is the author or editor of several books including most recently Rising Time Schemes in Babylonian Astronomy (Springer 2017) and The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (Brill 2016).


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ISBN 13 9781913727192
ISBN 10 191372719X
Title The Sky Turned Black
Author John Steele
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Silvertail Books
Year published 2022-06-10
Number of pages 358
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