Astronomy in the Maya codices /
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| Author / Creator: | Bricker, Harvey M. |
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| Imprint: | Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society, ©2011. |
| Description: | xxviii, 907 pages : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge ; v. 265 Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 265. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11809269 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- The Maya and their codices
- Astronomical concepts and terminology
- Maya calendrical cycles and their notations
- The correlation of Maya and western calendars
- The structure of Maya codices
- Deities and ceremonies
- The natural environment and agriculture
- Venus and Mercury
- Eclipses
- Mars
- Seasons of the tropical year
- Stars
- The astronomical knowledgs of the ancient Maya
- The question of Jupiter and Saturn
- Concordance between the terminology used in this book for instruments in the Dresden Codex and the Gates-Thompson terminology.
