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Berosus, the Chaldean

LC control no.n 82131988
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingBerosus, the Chaldean
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Variant(s)Beros, the Chaldean
Berosos, the Chaldean
Berossos, the Chaldean
Berossus, the Chaldean
Other standard no.0000000355630942
Beginning date-02
Field of activityAstronomy
Profession or occupationAuthors Astronomers Priests Historians
Found inSphaerae atque astrorum coelestium ratio, natura & motus:ad totius mundi fabricationis cognitione[m] fundamenta., 1536 title page verso (Hemicyclium Berosi)
Berossos und die bablonischhellenistische Literatur, 1923.
English Wikipedia, viewed March 18th, 2024 (Berossus or Berosus was a Hellenistic-era Babylonian writer, a priest of Bel Marduk and astronomer who wrote in the Koine Greek language, and who was active at the beginning of the 3rd century BC. Using ancient Babylonian records and texts that are now lost, Berossus published the Babyloniaca (hereafter, History of Babylonia) in three books some time around 290-278 BC,...Vitruvius credits him with the invention of the semi-circular sundial hollowed out of a cubical block. A statue of him was erected in Athens, perhaps attesting to his fame and scholarship as historian and astronomer-astrologer.)
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