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By: Hugh Thurston

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Paperback | 1 October 1996

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People must have watched the skies from time immemorial. Human beings have always shown intellectual curiosity in abundance, and before the invention of modern distractions people had more time-and more mental energy-to devote to stargazing than we have. Megaliths, Chinese oracle bones, Babylonian clay tablets, and Mayan glyphs all yield evi dence of early peoples' interest in the skies. To understand early astronomy we need to be familiar with various phenomena that could-and still can-be seen in the sky. For instance, it seems that some early people were interested in the points on the horizon where the moon rises or sets and marked the directions of these points with megaliths. These directions go through a complicated cycle-much more complicated than the cycle of the phases of the moon from new to full and back to new, and more complicated than the cycle of the rising and setting directions of the sun. Other peoples were interested in the irregular motions of the planets and in the way in which the times of rising of the various stars varied through the year, so we need to know about these phenomena, i. e. , about retrogression and about heliacal rising, to usc the technical terms. The book opens with an explanation of these matters. Early astronomers did more than just gaze in awe at the heavenly bodies; they tried to understand the complex details of their movements. By 300 H. C.

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Non-Fiction Science Astronomy, Space & Time Nature & The Natural World Popular Astronomy & Space Science in General History of Science Physics Applied Physics Astrophysics

Introduction
Early Stargazers	p. 1
Megalithic Astronomy	p. 45
The Babylonians	p. 64
The Egyptians	p. 82
The Chinese	p. 84
The Greeks	p. 110
The Astronomy of Aryabhata	p. 178
Arabic Astronomy	p. 190
The Mayas	p. 196
The European Renaissance	p. 205
Hipparchus's Table of Chords	p. 235
Calculation of the Eccentric-Quotient for the Sun, and the Longitude of its Apogee	p. 237
Ptolemy's Table of Chords	p. 239
Calculating the Radius of the Moon's Epicycle	p. 240
The Eccentric-Quotient and Apogee of Mars	p. 244
Reversed Epicycles	p. 246
Further Reading	p. 249
Sources of Information	p. 252
Index	p. 259
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