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Astronomy Across Cultures : The History of Non-Western Astronomy

The History of Non-Western Astronomy

By: Helaine Selin (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 January 2000

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Astronomy Across Cultures: A History of Non-Western Astronomy consists of essays dealing with the astronomical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Polynesian, Egyptian and Tibetan astronomy, among others, the book includes essays on Sky Tales and Why We Tell Them and Astronomy and Prehistory, and Astronomy and Astrology. The essays address the connections between science and culture and relate astronomical practices to the cultures which produced them. Each essay is well illustrated and contains an extensive bibliography. Because the geographic range is global, the book fills a gap in both the history of science and in cultural studies. It should find a place on the bookshelves of advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars, as well as in libraries serving those groups.

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`This book has wide-ranging essays on the astronomies of the ancient world (other than Greek and Mesopotamian which are traditionally taken to be the forerunners of Western astronomy). The book is steeply priced, but it is worth it.'
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`Recommended.'
Choice, 38:10 (2001)
`...it is a distinct pleasure to read the book from beginning to end.'
Mathematical Reviews, 2002c
`Astronomy across Cultures is a good resource for advanced students or faculty members who wish to learn of non-Western astronomical thought. The editor has assembled a coherent collection of chapters covering a wide variety of cultures and time periods. This work greatly expands the scope and coverage of the Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, ed. by Helaine Selin, from the same publisher (CH, Jan'98). Substantial chapter bibliographies; very good index.'
Choice, June 2001

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Acknowledgments
About the Contributors
Introduction
Sky Tales and Why We Tell Them	p. 1
Astronomy and Prehistory	p. 31
Astronomy and the Dreaming: The Astronomy of the Aboriginal Australians	p. 53
Useful and Conceptual Astronomy in Ancient Hawaii	p. 91
Ancient Astronomical Monuments in Polynesia	p. 127
A Polynesian Astronomical Perspective: the Maori of New Zealand	p. 161
The Inca: Rulers of the Andes, Children of the Sun	p. 197
Mesoamerican Astronomy and the Ritual Calendar	p. 225
Native American Astronomy: Traditions, Symbols, Ceremonies, Calendars, and Ruins	p. 269
Birth and Development of Indian Astronomy	p. 303
Remarks on the Origin of Indo-Tibetan Astronomy	p. 341
Indo-Malay Astronomy	p. 371
A Cultural History of Astronomy in Japan	p. 385
History of Astronomy in Korea	p. 409
Crossing the Boundaries Between Heaven and Man: Astronomy in Ancient China	p. 423
Astronomical Practices in Africa South of the Sahara	p. 455
Astronomy in Ancient Egypt	p. 475
Babylonian Astrology: Its Origin and Legacy in Europe	p. 509
Hebrew Astronomy: Deep Soundings from a Rich Tradition	p. 555
Mathematical Astronomy in Islamic Civilization	p. 585
Islamic Folk Astronomy	p. 615
Index	p. 651
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