John M. Steele

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John M. Steele is a British historian of science and professor of Egyptology and Assyriology at Brown University who is particularly concerned with the history of Babylonian astronomy .

Steele studied physics at Durham University with a bachelor's degree in 1995 and received his doctorate there in 1998 in the history of astronomy ( Observations and Predictions of Eclipse Times by Astronomers in the Pre-Telescopic Period ). As a post-doctoral student he was at the Dibner Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1998/99 , from 1999 to 2002 he was a Leverhulme Fellow in Durham and from 2002 to 2004 a Kenneth May Fellow at the University of Toronto . From 2004 to 2008 he was Royal Society Research Fellow at Durham University, Associate Professor in 2008 and Professor of Egyptology and Assyriology at Brown University in 2012.

He was visiting professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University . In 2010/11 he was a Webster Lecturer at the Archaeological Institute of America .

In his dissertation he analyzed the predictions and observations of eclipses up to the time of the invention of the telescope .

He is the founder and editor of Routledge's Scientific Writings from the Ancient and Medieval World series . He is on the editorial board of the Time, Astronomy, and Calendars (Brill) book series , was Advisory Editor of Isis from 2013 to 2015, and has been on the editorial board of the Journal for the History of Astronomy since 2012 .

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  • Observations and Predictions of Eclipse Times by Early Astronomers, Archimedes 4, Kluwer 2000
  • Editor with Annette Imhausen : Under One Sky: Astronomy and Mathematics in the Ancient Near East, 2002
  • A Brief Introduction to Astronomy in the Middle East, London: Saqui Books 2008
  • Published in: Calendars and Years: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient Near East, Oxford: Oxbow Books 2007, Volume 2, Oxford 2011
  • Ancient Astronomical Observations and the Study of the Moon's Motion (1691–1757), Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and the Physical Sciences, Springer 2012
  • Edited with J. Ben-Dov, W. Horowitz: Living the Lunar Calender, Oxford: Oxbow Books 2012
  • Editor with I. Pingree: Pathways into the Study of Ancient Sciences: Selected Essays by David Pingree , Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 104/4, Philadelphia 2014
  • Edited with J. Haubold, G. Lanfranchi, R. Rollinger: The World of Berossos, Classica et Orientalia 5, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2013
    • In it by Steele: The 'Astronomical Fragments' of Berossos in Context, pp. 107–121
  • Published in: The circulation of astronomical knowledge in the ancient world, Brill 2016
    • In it by Steele: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge between Babylon and Uruk, pp. 93-118
  • Editor with A. Jones, C. Proust: A mathematician's jouney: Otto Neugebauer and modern transformation of ancient sciences, Archimedes, Springer 2016
    • In it by Steele: Neugebauer's Astronomical Cuneiform Texts and its Reception
  • CLN Ruggles, J.-A. Belmonte, S. Iwaniszewski, A. López, S. McCluskey, JM Steele, Sun Xiaochun (eds.), Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy, Springer 2015
  • Mesopotamian Astrological Geography, in: P. Parthel, G. van Kooten (Eds.), The Star of Bethlehem and the Magi: Perspectives from Experts on the Ancient Near East, the Greco-Roman World, and Modern Astronomy, Leiden: Brill, 2015, pp. 201-216.

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SURNAME Steele, John M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian of science
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century