Program

Research Programs: Humanities, Science, and Technology

Period of Performance

9/1/1988 - 8/31/1991

Funding Totals

$93,263.00 (approved)
$93,263.00 (awarded)


Early Hellenistic Astronomy and Its Historical Context

FAIN: RH-20855-88

Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science (Princeton, NJ 08540-7436)
Alan C. Bowen (Project Director: October 1987 to January 1992)

To support research for a book on the historical and philosophical context of Greek astronomy and astrology in the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C. How the Babylonian culture influenced Hellenistic astronomy is of special interest.