The Power of Stars: How Celestial Observations Have Shaped Civilizations

Description

Author: Penprase, Bryan E.

Publisher: Springer

Pub Date: 2011

Binding: Hardcover

Condition:  Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Previous owner’s name and marking on upper edge title page.  Without dust jacket.  Printed boards.  Some scuffing to rear cover.  Very light edge and corner wear.

Notes: Textbook.  The role of the sky in the cultures of the Greeks, Egyptians, Babylonians, Native Americans, Chinese, Norse, African, Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations.  Creation stories, and how each culture explained the stars, the planets, and their alignments.  The development of time as a concept.  The development of archaeoastronomy and modern cosmology.