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Softcover. Condizione: Gut bis sehr gut. 1. Auflage. 340 pages, slightly bumped, otherwise fine. - - Contents: 1.) Opening and public lecture: Voyages guided by the skies: ancient concepts of exploring and domesticating time and space across cultures. - - Voyages of the Zodiac, an impenitent traveller across lands and ages. - - 2.) Astronomical navigation : an encounter of worlds: The archaeology of the nautical astrolabe: news from a shipwreck in Namibia. - - Celestial navigation in the USA, Fiji, and Tunisia. - - The problem of longitude in the 18th century: Jorge Juan, Antonio de Ulloa and the expedition of the Paris Academy of Sciences to the kingdom of Peru. - - Star-paths, stones and horizon astronomy. - - Protohistoric and historical atlantic navigation: archaeological evidence from the Azores. - - 3.) Archaeoastronomical voyages in antiquity, Egypt, Middle East and Mediterranean: The development of the sacred landscape of Saqqara in the Old Kingdom. - - Orientation of the villas at Tylissos on Crete and their relationships to the Minoan calendar. - - Defining astrology in ancient and classical history. - - Orion in Homer: is it a terrestrial, an astral or an astronomical myth? - - Himera and Pyrgi: the diagonals and the alignments of the temples. - - Plato's cosmic theology: a rationale for a polytheistic astrology? - - Ancient topometry, the tracing of towns in the Roman epoch: Ulpia Traiana Dacica Sarmizegetusa - Romania, Second part. - - 4.) Ethnoastronomical voyages in Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania: Reading alien landscapes: thick versus thin descriptions in archaeoastronomy. - - Statistical analysis of temple orientation in ancient India. - - The cosmos in Portuguese popular tradition: a bibliographic and fieldwork approach. - - On the intercourse between Indian and Arabic/Persian astrologies. - - 5.) Ethnoastronomical voyages in North America, Mesoamerica and South America: Shaking Eden: voyages, bodies and change in the social construction of South American skies. - - Sky travelers: cosmological experiences among evangelical Indians from the Argentinian Chaco. - - 6.) Archaeoastronomical voyages in paleolithic and neolithic cultures: Notes on archaeoastronomy in Portugal: from first light to dark moon. - - A voyage around the recumbent stone circles of north-east Scotland. - - Danish passage graves, 'spring/summer/fall full moons' and lunar standstills. - - Ditched enclosures in southern Portugal: an archaeoastronomical view. - - Possible astronomical intentionality in the Neolithic Mnajdra south temple in Malta. - - Astronomical topographical orientation of Kreisgrabenanlagen in lower Austria. - - Out of Africa: the solarization of the moon. - - A possible astronomically aligned monolith at Gardom's Edge. - - 7.) Archaeoastronomical voyages in Chalcolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages: A place along the way: contextualising findings from the Iron Age post enclosure at Lismullin, Co. Meath, Ireland. - - Open air rock art between Alva and Ceira Rivers: a voyage through mining, trading, transhumance routes and the orientation in the landscape. - - Astronomical orientations in sanctuaries of Daunia. - - From hillforts to saints: sun tropoi and patterns of christianization in NW Spain. - - Astronomical aspects of Krakow's monumental mounds. - - A myth in Celtiberian astronomy. - - The astronomical sanctuary of the Celtiberian town of Segeda (Mara, Zaragoza, Spain). - - Modeling and analysis of the Gobustan sundial observatory. - - 8.) Archaeoastronomical voyages in medieval time in orient and occident: A voyage of Christian medieval astronomy: symbolic, ritual and political orientation of churches. - - Transient astronomical events as inspiration sources of medieval art. III: the 13th and 14th centuries, and the case of the French "ordre de l'étoile". - - English medieval churches, 'festival orientation' and William Wordsworth. - - 9.) History of astronomy: an encounter of cultures: Gods, demons and deceivers: Jesuits facing Chaco skies. - - [..] etc.…

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Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.