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Skywatching in the Ancient World : New Perspectives in Cultural Astronomy.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Mesoamerican Worlds SeriesPublisher: Chicago : University Press of Colorado, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (417 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780870819803
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Skywatching in the Ancient WorldDDC classification:
  • 520
LOC classification:
  • GN799
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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 Churches -- 11: High Fashion -- Contributors -- Index.
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Intro -- 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 Churches -- 11: High Fashion -- Contributors -- Index.

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