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Ancient Astronomy: Zodiac, Archaeoastronomy, Flat Earth, Antikythera Mechanism, Metonic Cycle, Maya Calendar, Counter-Earth, Almagest
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Published on 2010-09 by Books LLC, Wiki Series

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 94. Chapters: Zodiac, Archaeoastronomy, Flat Earth, Antikythera mechanism, Metonic cycle, Maya calendar, Counter-Earth, Almagest, Biblical Magi, Spherical Earth, Indian astronomy, Planetary objects proposed in religion, astrology and ufology, Greek astronomy, Hebrew astronomy, Classical planet, On Sizes and Distances, Egyptian astronomy, Australian Aboriginal astronomy, Astrology and astronomy, Lost lands, Lunar standstill, Firmament, Myth of Er, Dendera zodiac, Astronomical complex, Decans, Christian O'Brien, Leper Stone, List of archaeoastronomical sites by country, Aristarchus On the Sizes and Distances, Apocalypse of John - dated astronomically, Out of the Ordinary Festival, Catasterismi, Wandlebury Enigma, Assyrian eclipse, Somnium Scipionis, Portingbury Hills, Fifth planet, El Caracol, Chichen Itza, Trepidation, Bora, Equant, Pretelescopic astronomy, Star lore, Tibetan astronomy, Tianquiztli, Sublunary sphere, Australian Aboriginal Astronomy Project, The Indestructibles, Gods in the Sky. Excerpt: Archaeoastronomy (also spelled archeoastronomy) is the study of how people in the past |have understood the phenomena in the sky how they used phenomena in the sky and what role the sky played in their cultures.| Clive Ruggles argues it is misleading to consider archaeoastronomy to be the study of ancient astronomy, as modern astronomy is a scientific discipline, while archaeoastronomy considers other cultures' symbolically rich cultural interpretations of phenomena in the sky. It is often twinned with ethnoastronomy, the anthropological study of skywatching in contemporary societies. Archaeoastronomy is also closely associated with historical astronomy, the use of historical records of heavenly events to answer astronomical problems and the history of astronomy, which uses written records to evaluate past astronomical practice. Ar...