Astronomy in the Ancient World Early and Modern Views on Celestial E
Alexus McLeod explores every aspect of the lesser-known history of astronomy in the Americas (Mesoamerica and North America), China and India, each through the frame of a particular astronomical phenomena. Part One considers the development of astron
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Alexus McLeod
Astronomy in the Ancient World Early and Modern Views on Celestial Events
Historical & Cultural Astronomy
Historical & Cultural Astronomy EDITORIAL BOARD Chairman W. BUTLER BURTON, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA ([email protected]); University of Leiden, The Netherlands, ([email protected]) JAMES EVANS, University of Puget Sound, USA MILLER GOSS, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA JAMES LEQUEUX, Observatoire de Paris, France SIMON MITTON, St. Edmund’s College Cambridge University, UK WAYNE ORCHISTON, National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand, Thailand MARC ROTHENBERG, AAS Historical Astronomy Division Chair, USA VIRGINIA TRIMBLE, University of California Irvine, USA XIAOCHUN SUN, Institute of History of Natural Science, China GUDRUN WOLFSCHMIDT, Institute for History of Science and Technology, Germany
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Alexus McLeod
Astronomy in the Ancient World Early and Modern Views on Celestial Events
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Alexus McLeod University of Connecticut Storrs, CT USA
ISSN 2509-310X Historical & Cultural Astronomy ISBN 978-3-319-23599-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-23600-1
ISSN 2509-3118
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Acknowledgements
I owe thanks to many people, all of whom have helped me learn and attain some small amount of understanding in a field in which I received no form
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