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Ancient Astronomyby Clive Ruggles
ABC-CLIO 2005; US$ 85.00Long before astronomy was a science, humans used the stars to mark time, navigate, organize planting and dramatize myths. This encyclopaedia draws on archaeological evidence and oral traditions to reveal how prehistoric humans perceived the skies and celestial phenomena. more...
Exploring Ancient Skiesby David H. Kelley; Eugene F. Milone
Springer-Verlag New York Inc 2005; US$ 299.00Exploring Ancient Skies' uses modern science to examine ancient astronomy throughout the World: the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, the Far East, and the New World, particularly Mesoamerica. Throughout, the discussion emphasizes the main purposes of ancient astronomy, many of which it shares with modern astronomy. more...
Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomyby Giulio Magli
Springer 2009; US$ 27.50Shows the limitations of orthodox archeology in the face of astronomically-based artifacts and tries to understand what led the ancients to construct buildings such as the city of Teotihuacan in the Mexico Valley, the Ceremonial Centre of Chaco Canyon in the USA, the Avebury stone circle in Great Britain or the Great Pyramids in Egypt. more...
The Power of Starsby Bryan E. Penprase
Springer 2011; US$ 39.95What are some of the connections that bind us to the stars? How have these connections been established? And how have people all around the world and throughout time reacted to the night sky, the sun and moon, in their poetry, mythology, rituals, and temples? This book explores the influence of the sky on both ancient and modern civilization, by providing a clear overview of the many ways in which humans have used the stars as an ordering principle in their cultures, and which today still inspire us intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually. This book explores constellation lore from around the world, celestial alignments of monuments and temples, both from ancient and modern civilizations, and the role the sky has played in the cultures... more...
One Million Things: Spaceby Carole Stott
DK Publishing 2010; US$ 18.99A photographic feast serves up imagery and information about all things cosmic: from planets, moons, and comets, to black holes, nebulae, distant solar systems, and more. Following on the incredible success of the One Million Things series, this spectacular book features dynamic photographs that beautifully showcase the stars, moons, asteroids, spacecraft, satellites, and brand-new discoveries that make up our universe. There are millions of things to learn about space! more...
Ancient Astronomical Observations and the Study of the Moons Motion (1691-1757)by John M. Steele
Springer 2012; US$ 124.00The discovery of a gradual acceleration in the moon's mean motion by Edmond Halley in the last decade of the seventeenth century led to a revival of interest in reports of astronomical observations from antiquity. These observations provided the only means to study the moon's 'secular acceleration', as this newly-discovered acceleration became known. This book contains the first detailed study of the use of ancient and medieval astronomical observations in order to investigate the moon's secular acceleration from its discovery by Halley to the establishment of the magnitude of the acceleration by Richard Dunthorne, Tobias Mayer and Jerome Lalande in the 1740s and 1750s. Making extensive use of previously unstudied manuscripts,... more...
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