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John Steele

Associate Professor of Egyptology and Ancient West Asian Studies:
Egyptology & Ancient Western Asian Studies
Phone: +1 401 863 6229
John_Steele@brown.edu

Biography

John Steele is a historian of the exact sciences in antiquity. He specializes in the history of astronomy, with a particular focus on Mesopotamian astronomy. He is the author of Observations and Predictions of Eclipse Times by Early Astronomers (Kluwer 2000) and A Brief Introduction to Astronomy in the Middle East (Saqi 2008), and editor of Calendars and Years: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient Near East (Oxbow Books 2007) and (jointly with Annette Imhausen) Under One Sky: Astronomy and Mathematics in the Ancient Near East (Ugarit Verlag 2002). Before coming to Brown, John Steele has been a Royal Society University Research Fellow at Durham University, E. P. May Fellow at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto, and Dibner Institure Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology.

Degrees

BSc, PhD