Workshop
Astronomical Computation in the Pre-Modern World: Methods – Tables – Accuracy
Date
Location
Institute for the History of Knowledge of the Ancient World, Freie Universität Berlin, Holzlaube, Fabeckstraße 23–25, Room: 2.2058, 14195 Berlin
Organizer
In the context of the ERC Project Zodiac-Ancient Astral Science in Transformation
Lecturing Person
Mathieu Ossendrijver
Thomas Peeters
Thomas Peeters
This workshop brings together specialists of predictive methods in pre-modern astronomy. The focus is on zodiac-based computational methods in ancient Babylonia,
Egypt, and the Greco-Roman world (ca. 400 BCE – 400 CE) and pre-modern computational methods in other regions, communities, and periods (ca. 400–1500 CE).
Topics of discussion:
- New approaches and results in the area of table cracking and reconstruction of algorithms
- Interpreting a multiplicity of predictive methods
- Accuracy and efficiency of astronomical computation
- Predictive toolboxes
- Astronomical tables: notations, layout, non-textual features, material features
We kindly ask anyone interested in attending to RSVP before 1 April by writing to zodiac@geschkult.fu-berlin.de and providing your full name, country of residence, and affiliation (if any),
and indicate whether you want to attend in person or remotely.
https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/en/e/zodiac/workshops/Computation/index.html