Decoding astronomy in art and architecture
For centuries, our ancestors carefully observed the movements of the heavens and wove that astronomical knowledge into their city planning, architecture, mythology, paintings, sculpture, and poetry. This book uncovers the hidden messages and advanced science encoded within these sacred spaces, showi...
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| Sprache: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland
Springer
[2021]
Chichester, UK Praxis Publishing |
| Schriftenreihe: | Springer praxis books in popular astronomy
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| Zusammenfassung: | For centuries, our ancestors carefully observed the movements of the heavens and wove that astronomical knowledge into their city planning, architecture, mythology, paintings, sculpture, and poetry. This book uncovers the hidden messages and advanced science encoded within these sacred spaces, showing how the rhythmic motions of the night sky played a central role across many different cultures. Our astronomical tour transports readers through time and space, from prehistoric megaliths to Renaissance paintings, Greco-Roman temples to Inca architecture. Along the way, you will investigate unexpected findings at Lascaux, Delphi, Petra, Angkor Wat, Borobudur, and many more archaeological sites both famous and little known. Through these vivid examples, you will come to appreciate the masterful ways that astronomical knowledge was incorporated into each society’s religion and mythology, then translated into their physical surroundings. The latest archaeoastronomical studies and discoveries are recounted through a poetic and nontechnical narrative, revealing how many longstanding beliefs about our ancestors are being overturned. Through this celestial journey, readers of all backgrounds will learn the basics about this exciting field and share in the wonders of cultural astronomy |
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| Beschreibung: | Glossary of Terminology; Chapter 1; Introduction ; Overview, Intentions and Limitations of the Book Content; Basics of Archaeoastronomy; Universal Cosmic Symbols, Cosmic Man, World Tree, ; Cave Art; Lascaux Cave: Taurus Painting and Symbolism of Markings ; Prehistoric Monumental Architecture ; Standing Stones, Sun Temples and Megalithic Sites, Malta, Gobekli Tepe, British Isles,; Cosmological Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt; Pyramids and Temple Orientations and Alignments, Constellation Images, Astronomical Ceilings, Sky Myths ; Cosmological Artwork of Mesopotamia ; Bas-relief carvings of Planetary Gods, Sumerian Clay Tablets; Chapter 2; Cosmological Art and Architecture of Southeast Asia; Hinduism: Symbolism of Hindu Temples, Cosmic Myths, Dancing Shiva Statues, Temple of Angkor Wat, Cambodia ; Buddhism: Pillars of Ashoka, Symbolism of Buddhist Stupas, The Great Stupa at Sanchi, India, - the Ajanta Caves, Shwedagon Pagoda, Myanmar, Boudhanath Stupa, Nepal, Temple of Borobudur, Java, ; Cosmological Art and Architecture of China ; Cosmic Temples of Old Beijing, Temple of Heaven, The Forbidden City, The Mandate of Heaven and Celestial Order, Astronomical Alignments and Rituals, Oldest Star Map Found at Dunhuang Caves, Star Map from Song Dynasty; Chapter 3; Cosmological Art and Architecture in Classical and Hellenistic Greece; Astronomical Orientations, Greek Temples, Greek Theaters, Stellar Myths; Cosmological Orientations at Petra; The Great Temple, Mortuary Temples; Cosmological Art and Architecture in Ancient Rome; Artworks of Augustus, Villa of Hadrian, Pantheon, Ocular Light and Shadow, Horologium, Zodiac Mosaics, Astronomical Symbolism of the Cult of Mithras ; Chapter 4 ; Cosmological Art and Architecture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe ; Medieval: Paintings of Giotto, Arena Chapel, Astronomical Manuscripts, Alignment of Churches, - Zodiac of Chartres Cathedral, Cosmological Diagrams,; Renaissance: Astronomical Ceilings, Sistine Chapel, Solar Symbology, Children of Mercury, Venus and Mars, Art of Astronomical Manuscripts, The Sun in the Church; Early Modern Art and Architecture; Chapter 5; Cosmological Art and Architecture of Mesoamerica ; Teotihuacan: Alignment of Temples and Pyramids of the Sun, Moon and Quetzalcoatl, ; Cosmic Design of the City ; Tenochtitlan: Pyramid Alignments, Solar Gods; Cosmological Art and Architecture of Ancient Maya ; Alignments of Maya Temples, Buildings and Pyramids, Fresco Paintings of Bonambak, Chichen Itza Caracol, Star Gods, Tomb Art of Lord Pakal, Art and Symbology of the Stars; Chapter 6 ; Cosmological Art and Architecture of South America ; Alignments of Incan Temples, Machu Picchu Observatory, Cosmology of Corichanca Temple, Inca Celestial Bodies, Solar observatories; Cosmological Architecture of North America; Chaco Canyon, Kivas, Cahokia, - Serpent Mound; Chapter 7; Apotheosis: Becoming A Star; Egyptian Pharaoh to Roman Emperor to George Washington to Louis Napoleon Bonaparte ; Roden Crater Project; Sun-light, Solar and Celestial Viewing Site, Flagstaff, AZ |
| Beschreibung: | xiii, 343 Seiten Illustrationen 678 grams |
| ISBN: | 9783030765101 |