Buch, Englisch, 120 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 297 mm, Gewicht: 372 g
Booklet of Abstracts. Timekeeping, Navigation, Surveying - Cultural Astronomy and Instruments.
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-384-67440-1
Verlag: tredition
Conference of the 32th European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC) & Gesellschaft für Archäoastronomie (GfA), Hamburg, August 25-30, 2025.
Buch, Englisch, 120 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 297 mm, Gewicht: 372 g
ISBN: 978-3-384-67440-1
Verlag: tredition
The main topic is cultural astronomy and archaeoastronomy. A cultural and thematic arc is drawn for the location of humans in space and time for archaic and ancient cultures. All epochs are presented from Stone Age, Bronze Age, Ancient Cultures, to Early Modern Time or the Baroque. There are in addition remarkable contributions on the topics of timekeeping, navigation, and surveying. Astronomical orientations of buildings and sites are also addressed. There is a special emphasis on scientific instruments, especially astronomical and surveying instruments, but also water clocks, sundials, pendulum clocks and chronometers. Two contributions discuss Astronomical Clocks as heritage of astronomy, but also the technical aspects. Relationships between cultural astronomy and other disciplines like archaeology, anthropology, ethnoastronomy, architecture, art, metrology, philosophy ot history of science are also discussed.
Zielgruppe
Dieses Sachbuch zur Archäo- und Kulturastronomie wird Leser begeistern, die an Prähistorie (Megalithkultur, Bronzezeit), Archäologie der Antike, Geschichte anderer Kulturen und an mittelalterlicher Architektur sowie Renaissance- und Barockzeit interessiert sind. Alle diese kulturhistorischen Themen werden mit Bezug zur Astronomie behandelt - Kulturgeschichte oder auch Instrumentengeschichte. Das Buch „Timekeeping, Navigation, Surveying -- Cultural Astronomy and Instruments“ ist auch für Studenten und Lehrer empfehlenswert.
