| LC control no. | n 82131988 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Berosus, the Chaldean |
| Variant(s) | Beros, the Chaldean Berosos, the Chaldean Berossos, the Chaldean Berossus, the Chaldean |
| Other standard no. | 0000000355630942 |
| Beginning date | -02 |
| Field of activity | Astronomy |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Astronomers Priests Historians |
| Found in | Sphaerae 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.) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berossus> |
| Associated language | grc |
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