Skywatching in the ancient world : new perspectives in cultural astronomy : studies in honor of Anthony F. Aveni / / edited by Clive Ruggles and Gary Urton
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| Titolo: |
Skywatching in the ancient world : new perspectives in cultural astronomy : studies in honor of Anthony F. Aveni / / edited by Clive Ruggles and Gary Urton
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| Pubblicazione: | Boulder, Colorado : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2007 |
| ©2007 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (417 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 520 |
| Soggetto topico: | Archaeoastronomy |
| Astronomy, Ancient | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Persona (resp. second.): | RugglesC. L. N (Clive L. N.) |
| UrtonGary <1946-> | |
| AveniAnthony F. | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Editors' Note; Introduction; 1: The Correlation between the Colonial Northern Zapotec and Gregorian Calendars; 2: Kirchhoff's Correlations and the Third Part of the Codex Borbonicus; 3: When Was the Dresden Codex Venus Table Efficacious?; 4: Moon Woman Meets the Stars; 5: Astronomical Cycles in the Imagery of Codex Borgia 29-46; 6: The Measure of Man; 7: A Multi-Year Tukapu Calendar; 8: Solar and Lunar Observations in the Inca Calendar; 9: Cosmology, Calendar, and Temple Orientations in Ancient Hawai' |
| 10: Calendrical Cycles, the Eighth Day of the World, and the Orientation of English Churches11: High Fashion; Contributors; Index | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Skywatching in the ancient world |
| ISBN: | 0-87081-980-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910455249403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Mesoamerican worlds.