| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
176 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Smithsonian exploring the ancient world |
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Exploring the ancient world.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-171) and index. |
| Contents |
A sky for everyone -- The unwritten record -- Taproots of Western astronomy -- Islam: surveyor and purveyor -- Ancient Asia's stellar bureaucracy -- Africa's socialized astronomy -- Hermetically sealed: ancient Mesoamerica -- North America: charting celestial symmetry -- Pathways to the stars: skywatching in the Andes -- The voyaging stars of Oceania -- A jewel with many facets. |
| Summary |
Includes the development of astronomy in the Islamic empire, Asia, Africa, Mesoamerica, North America, the Andes, and Oceania. |
| Subject |
Archaeoastronomy.
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Astronomy, Ancient.
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Indian astronomy.
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous astronomy.
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| Added Author |
Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress) DLC.
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| ISBN |
0895990377 |
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9780895990372 |
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