书目名称 | Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy | 副标题 | From Giza to Easter | 编辑 | Giulio Magli | 视频video | | 概述 | The first complete and authoritative introduction to the young and fascinating science of Archaeoastronomy.Explores the ancients’ motives in constructing such grandiose buildings as the city of Teotih | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .The book is divided into two parts. In the first, the reader is taken on an ideal ‘world tour’ of many wonderful and enigmatic places in almost every continent, in search of traces of astronomical knowledge and lore of the sky. In the second part, Giulio Magli uses the elements presented in the tour to show that the fundamental idea which led to the construction of the astronomically-related giant monuments was the foundation of power, a foundation which was exploited by ‘replicating’ the sky. A possible interpretive model then emerges that is founded on the relationship the ancients had with “nature”, in the sense of everything that surrounded them, the cosmos. The numerous monumental astronomically aligned structures of the past then become interpretable as acts of will, expressions of power on the part of those who held it; the will to replicate the heavenly plane here on earth and to build sacred landscapes...Finally, having formulated his hypothesis, Professor Magli returns to visit one specific place in detail, searching for proof. This in-depth examination studies the most compelling, the most intensively studied, the most famous and, until recently, the most misunderstood | 出版日期 | Book 2009 | 关键词 | AAS; Chaco Cany; Giulio Magli; Norman Lockyer; alexander thom; ancient astronomy; ancient observatories; an | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76566-2 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4939-3907-7 | isbn_ebook | 978-0-387-76566-2 | copyright | Springer-Verlag New York 2009 |
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