Berosus, the Chaldean
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Name (Latin)
Berosus, the Chaldean
Other forms of name
Berosos, the Chaldean
Beros, the Chaldean
Berossus, the Chaldean
Berossos, the Chaldean
Date of birth
-0330
Date of death
-0249
Field of activity
Astronomy
Occupation
Astronomers
Authors
Historians
Priests
Associated Language
grc
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Berossos und die bablonischhellenistische Literatur, 1923.
- 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. ( (English Wikipedia, viewed March 18th, 2024) )
- Sphaerae atque astrorum coelestium ratio, natura & motus:ad totius mundi fabricationis cognitione[m] fundamenta., 1536title page verso (Hemicyclium Berosi)
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