Astronomy of the Ancients
Brecher, Kenneth
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Add to basket1979. Copertina editoriale rigida e sovraccoperta alettata. 224 p.; Ill.; 23 cmC.51.
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A stirring mix of science, history, and myth illustrating the indomitable urge of our ancestors to understand the world.
(Carl Sagan)Erich von Daniken and other purveyors of ancient-astronaut mythology would have us believe that the body of astronomical knowledge among early civilizations...must have resulted from the nobless oblige of extraterrestrial colonists.... 'Astronomy of the Ancients' is a collection of eight articles.... Together they provide ample refutation of the von Daniken fallacy. They also provide, more importantly, a picture of the broad role that astronomy played in most ancient cultures: its application to chronology, meteorology, agriculture, religion, astrology, mythology, and the satisfaction of simple curiosity about nature... The book is full of interesting facts cited, interesting questions raised.
(Christian Science Monitor)In my opinion this is the best available anthology in the new field of archaeoastronomy—scholarly yet very readable, worldwide in its scope, ranging from the decoding of Stonehenge to the deciphering of eclipse tables of the ancient Maya.
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