Archaeoastronomy [E-Book] : Introduction to the Science of Stars and Stones / by Giulio Magli.
This book provides the first complete, easy to read, up-to-date account of the fascinating discipline of archaeoastronomy, in which the relationship between ancient constructions and the sky is studied in order to gain a better understanding of the ideas of the architects of the past and of their re...
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Personal Name(s): | Magli, Giulio, author |
Edition: |
1st ed. 2016. |
Imprint: |
Cham :
Springer,
2016
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Physical Description: |
XIII, 246 pages 164 illustrations, 111 illustrations in color (online resource) |
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englisch |
ISBN: |
9783319228822 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-319-22882-2 |
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Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
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- Introduction: What is Archaeoastronomy, and why studying it
- Ideas
- Astronomy and people
- Astronomy and power
- Astronomy and afterworld
- Astronomy and architecture
- Astronomy and landscape
- Methods
- The celestial coordinates
- The apparent motion of the Sun
- The apparent motion of the stars
- The apparent motion of the Moon and the planets
- The observation of celestial bodies at the horizon
- The use of astronomical software in aa
- The methods for making measures in aa
- The methods for analyzing measures in aa
- Places
- Stonehenge
- Giza
- Chichen Itza
- The Island of the Sun
- The Campus Martius
- The Valley of the Temples of Agrigento
- Menorca
- Chimney Rock.