Beyond the Blue Horizon: Myths and Legends of the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Planets - Hardcover

Krupp, E. C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060156538 ISBN 13: 9780060156534

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1991

Synopsis

Examines the myths and legends about the heavens that have fascinated humans since the beginning of time and today propel us toward space exploration

About this title

About the Author:

About the Author:
E.C. Krupp is an astronomer and Director of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. An internationally recognized expert on ancient and prehistoric astronomy, he is the author of numerous books including Echoes of the Ancient Skies. In 1989 he won the prestigious Klumpke-Roberts Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for outstanding contributions to public understanding and appreciation of astronomy.

Review:

"Gathers an amazing amount of interesting material to escort readers on an exploration of human thought about the sky, its phenomena, and objects. It presents abundant examples of how very different peoples have viewed the sun, moon, planets, stars, comets, the Milky Way, and their apparent
behavior....Krupp's writing is always in the best style, and this work is no exception....In summary, this is an impressive, interesting, and useful work whose pages should become worn from use over the many years it will remain a standard, highly treasured source of information."--Sky and
Telescope

"A delight, a gentle scientific look at the stories humjanity has told to explain the unknown, presented in an accessibly conversational style....Krupp is educational, but he's also fun."--The Sacramento Bee

"[A] scintillating tour of the myths, legends, and science of the moon, stars, and planets....An erudite but easy-going guide to how the human imagination has filled the world above us with ideas, inventions, and beliefs."--A Common Reader

"An epic, entertaining, and exhaustively researched volume."--Science News

"Full of fascinating connections and odd facts....Lavishly illustrated."--Science Frontiers Book Supplement

"Excellent....An extraordinary collection of folktales and myths and lore relating to the cosmos and our place in it, all placed into context by an astronomer who revels in the wonder and beauty of the natural world."--Skeptical Inquirer

"The writing style is easy and flowing, now pure poetry, now humorously vernacular....A tremendously helpful compendium of countless legends and myths....[Here] speaks a true scientist, one who learns from nature, letting intuition speak for instinctively recognized values of a reality beyond
the gravitationally bound brainmind."--Sunrise

"A detailed yet readable look at the world's myths and legends relating to the sun, moon, planets, and stars."--Astronomy

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0060156538
• ISBN 13: 9780060156534
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 387