| Description |
ix, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Medicine wheels and Plains Indian astronomy / John A. Eddy -- Pictographs and petroglyphs of the Southwest Indians / John C. Brandt -- The first scientific instruments / Sharon Gibbs -- Old and New World naked-eye astronomy / Anthony F. Aveni -- Sirius enigmas / Kenneth Brecher -- The basic astronomy of Stonehenge / Owen Bingerich -- The Gorgon's eye / Jerome Y. Lettvin -- The language of archaic astronomy : a clue to the Atlantis myth? / Harald A.T. Reiche |
| Summary |
The eight articles and dozens of photographs and drawings in this book introduce the reader to the ancient astronomers - their observatories, their instruments, and their explorations of the awesome regularities (and shocking irregularities) that appear in the sky |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Archaeoastronomy.
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Astronomy, Ancient.
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Astronomy -- history.
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| Author |
Brecher, Kenneth.
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Feirtag, Michael.
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| LC no. |
79014174 |
| ISBN |
0262021374 |
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