The Babylonian Astronomical Compendium MUL.APIN
Hermann Hunger, John Steele. . Scientific Writings from the Ancient and Medieval World. London: Routledge, 2019.
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The current standard edition. Some listings show 2018 for the first printing. Use this and Rochberg 2004 for Babylonian star names and figures, not the popular compilations that circulate on astrology sites.
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- Aquarius
- For the Babylonian constellation name MUL.GU.LA.
- Aries
- For the Babylonian constellation name and the compendium it stands in.
- Cancer
- For the Babylonian constellation name MUL.AL.LUL and the compendium it stands in.
- Capricorn
- For the Babylonian constellation name and the compendium it stands in.
- Ea
- For the Babylonian constellation names MUL.GU.LA and MUL.SUḪUR.MÁŠ.
- Gemini
- For the Babylonian constellation name and the compendium it stands in.
- Leo
- For the Babylonian constellation name UR.GU.LA and the compendium it stands in.
- Libra
- For the Babylonian constellation name ZIB.BA.AN.NA and the compendium it stands in.
- Pisces
- For the Babylonian figures at the two fish positions and the connecting cord.
- Precession of the Equinoxes
- For Babylonian star-fixed reckoning, in which the effects of precession accumulate without being identified as a phenomenon.
- Sagittarius
- For the Babylonian constellation name and the compendium it stands in.
- Scorpio
- For the Babylonian constellation name and the compendium it stands in.
- Taurus
- For the Babylonian constellation name and the compendium it stands in.
- Virgo
- For the Babylonian constellation name and the compendium it stands in.