Skywatchers: A Revised and Updated Version of Skywatchers of Ancient MexicoUniversity of Texas Press, 2001 M08 15 - 411 páginas Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico helped establish the field of archaeoastronomy, and it remains the standard introduction to this subject. Combining basic astronomy with archaeological and ethnological data, it presented a readable and entertaining synthesis of all that was known of ancient astronomy in the western hemisphere as of 1980. In this revised edition, Anthony Aveni draws on his own and others' discoveries of the past twenty years to bring the Skywatchers story up to the present. He offers new data and interpretations in many areas, including:
With this updated information, Skywatchers will serve a new generation of general and scholarly readers and will be useful in courses on archaeoastronomy, astronomy, history of astronomy, history of science, anthropology, archaeology, and world religions. |
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... Dunham ) Fig . 27 shows that the sun's " horizon points " do not change at a uni- form rate throughout the year . Around the time of the equinoxes , when the sun moves across the equator , its contact points with the horizon shift no ...
... Dunham ) ern latitude , demonstrates both atmospheric refraction and extinction . Re- fraction causes the star trails to bend slightly to the north ( right ) as the stars set . ( To convince yourself of this try laying a straight edge ...
... Dunham ) regarded as a functioning ( though not precise ) solstice observatory only and not as an equinoctial one . As the later E - VII sub construction phases proceeded ( c ) , the height of the pyramid was extended from 3.30-3.50 ...
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The Historical Ethnographic and Ethnological Background | 12 |
Contents | 38 |
Astronomy with the Naked Eye | 49 |
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