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1) Astronomy in ancient times

Author

Asimov, Isaac

Series

New library of the universe
Isaac Asimov's 21st century library of the universe.Past and present

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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An up-to-the minute examination of the methods used by ancient astronomers to study the sky and some of their most exciting discoveries.

2) Echoes of the ancient skies: the astronomy of lost civilizations

Author

Krupp, E. C

Language

English

3) Archaeoastronomy

Publisher

Center for Archaeoastronomy, University of Maryland

Pub. Date

1979

Language

English

Formats

Magazine, Magazine/Journal/Newspaper

4) Exploring ancient skies: an encyclopedic survey of archaeoastronomy

Author

Kelley, David H

Publisher

Springer

Pub. Date

[2005]

Language

English

5) Stairways to the stars: skywatching in three great ancient cultures

Author

Aveni, Anthony F

Publisher

J. Wiley

Pub. Date

1997.

Language

English

6) Early astronomy

Author

Thurston, Hugh

Publisher

Springer

Pub. Date

[1994]

Language

English

7) Astronomy of the ancients

Publisher

MIT Press

Pub. Date

[1979]

Language

English

8) Poetic astronomy in the ancient near East: the reflexes of celestial science in ancient Mesopotamian, Ugaritic, and Israelite narrative

Author

Cooley, Jeffrey L

Series

History archaeology and culture of the Levant volume 5

Publisher

Eisenbrauns

Pub. Date

2013

Language

English

9) In search of ancient astronomies

Publisher

Doubleday

Pub. Date

1977.

Language

English

10) Early man and the cosmos

Author

Hadingham, Evan

Publisher

University of Oklahoma Press

Pub. Date

1984.

Language

English

11) Skywatchers, shamans & kings: astronomy and the archaeology of power

Author

Krupp, E. C

Series

Wiley popular science

Publisher

Wiley

Pub. Date

[1997]

Language

English

12) The circulation of astronomical knowledge in the ancient world

Series

Time astronomy and calendars volume Volume 6

Publisher

Brill

Pub. Date

2016.

Language

English

13) Ancient astronomy

Author

Asimov, Isaac

Series

Library of the universe

Publisher

G. Stevens Pub

Pub. Date

1988.

Language

English

Description

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Briefly describes beliefs of astronomers from ancient times to 1609, when Galileo's discoveries through the telescope gave birth to modern astronomy.

14) Ancient astronomers

Author

Aveni, Anthony F

Series

Exploring the ancient world

Publisher

St. Remy Press

Pub. Date

[1993]

Language

English

15) Skywatching in the ancient world: new perspectives in cultural astronomy : studies in honor of Anthony F. Aveni

Series

Mesoamerican worlds

Publisher

University Press of Colorado

Pub. Date

[2007]

Language

English

16) Foundations of new world cultural astronomy: a reader with commentary

Publisher

University Press of Colorado

Pub. Date

[2008]

Language

English

Description

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Cultural astronomy, first called "archaeoastronomy," has evolved at ferocious speed since its genesis in the 1960s, with seminal essays and powerful rebuttals published in far-flung, specialized journals. Until now, only the most closely involved scholars could follow the intellectual fireworks. In Foundations of New World Cultural Astronomy, one of cultural astronomy's founders and top scholars, Anthony Aveni, offers a personal selection of the essays...