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Cosmic Order and Cultural Astronomy

Author : Rana Singh
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443816076

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Throughout the Indian subcontinent there are territories and areas wherein culture, geography, and the archetypal cosmos interact with each other to create a sacredscape that is infused with meaning, cultural performances and transcendent power. These sacred sites possess extensive mythological associations where believed that spirit can cross between different realms. In a broad perspective such studies falls within the realm of cultural astronomy, which has two broad areas, viz. archaeoastronomy, concerned with the study of the use of astronomy and its role in ancient cultures and civilizations; and ethnoastronomy that studies the use of astronomy and its role in contemporary cultures. The seven essays in this volume deals with the critical appraisal of studying cultural astronomy and cosmic order and its implications in India, illustrated with case studies like heritagescape of Khajuraho, where stone speaks; manescape of Gaya, where manes come and bless the devotees; Deviscape of Vindhyachal, where goddess resorts; Shivascape of Kashi, where Shiva dances in making order; Shaktiscape of Kashi, that possesses the spatial ordering of goddesses; and Naturscape of Chitrakut, where mother earth blesses.

Cosmos & Culture: Cultural Evolution in a Cosmic Context

Author : Steven J. Dick,Mark L. Lupisella,National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780160897412

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Cosmos & Culture: Cultural Evolution in a Cosmic Context by Steven J. Dick,Mark L. Lupisella,National Aeronautics and Space Administration Pdf

NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT--OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price During the last 50 years, coincident with the Space Age, cosmic evolution has been recognized as the master narrative of the universe, history writ large. Cosmic evolution includes physical, biological, and cultural evolution, and of these the latter is by far the most rapid. In this volume, authors with diverse backgrounds in science, history, anthropology, and more, consider culture in the context of the cosmos. How does our knowledge of cosmic evolution affect terrestrial culture? Conversely, how does our knowledge of cultural evolution affect our thinking about possible cultures in the cosmos? Are life, mind, and culture of fundamental significance to the grand story of the cosmos that has generated its own self-understanding through science, rational reasoning, and mathematics? Might this lead to cultural evolution on a large enough scale to allow the universe to both create and steer itself toward its own destiny? Related products: NASA's First 50 Years: Historical Perspectives; NASA 50 Anniversary Proceedings can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/033-000-01336-1 Bringing the Future Within Reach: Celebrating 75 Years of the NASA John H. Glenn Research Center, 1941-2016 can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/033-000-01377-9 Other products produced by National Aerounautics and Space Administration (NASA) can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/agency/550

Cosmos & Culture

Author : Steven J. Dick,Mark Lupisella
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : IND:30000125932388

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From GPO Bookstore's Website: Authors with diverse backgrounds in science, history, anthropology, and more, consider culture in the context of the cosmos. How does our knowledge of cosmic evolution affect terrestrial culture? Conversely, how does our knowledge of cultural evolution affect our thinking about possible cultures in the cosmos? Are life, mind, and culture of fundamental significance to the grand story of the cosmos that has generated its own self-understanding through science, rational reasoning, and mathematics? Book includes bibliographical references and an index.

Cosmology Across Cultures

Author : José Alberto Rubiño-Martín
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : CHI:089113107

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These are the proceedings of "Cosmology Across Cultures: An International Conference on the Impact of the Study of the Universe in Human Thinking" organized by the Spanish Institutes of Astrophysics of the Canaries and Andalucía under the patronage of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC). The conference hosted in the multicultural historical city of Granada more than 80 participants from all the continents. This conference joined specialists of cultural astronomy studies and modern cosmology in a single forum where ideas about the comprehension of the Universe across time, space, and cultures were interchanged, analyzed, revised, and challenged. An experiment, excellently represented by this book, it worked out in a most satisfactory ambience, permitting both modern cosmologists to receive an insight of how people in the past perceived the cosmos and cultural astronomers to understand the great advances of cosmology in the last few decades and consequently the exact and modest position occupied by humankind in an expanding universe dominated by dark matter and dark energy. The volume is chronologically organized, beginning with modern cosmological studies, followed by historical documentation, and ending with information from archaeological remains. Each section of the book can be studied independently, although a general inspection of the complete volume is recommended to get a correct insight of the spirit of the conference. This book is of interest to any scholar or student wishing to understand the evolution of the human comprehension of the universe.

Culture and Cosmos Vol 21 1 And 2

Author : Liz Henty,Bernadette Brady,Darrelyn Gunzburg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1907767754

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This volume of Culture and Cosmos draws together a selection of papers delivered at the 24th annual conference of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC). Titled 'The Marriage of Astronomy and Culture: Theory and Method in the Study of Cultural Astronomy', the meeting occurred between the 12th and the 16th September 2016 and was held at The Bath Literary and Scientific Institution (BRLSI), which has been hosting research endeavours since it foundation in 1824.

Astronomy Across Cultures

Author : Helaine Selin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401141796

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Astronomy Across Cultures by Helaine Selin Pdf

Astronomy Across Cultures: A History of Non-Western Astronomy consists of essays dealing with the astronomical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Polynesian, Egyptian and Tibetan astronomy, among others, the book includes essays on Sky Tales and Why We Tell Them and Astronomy and Prehistory, and Astronomy and Astrology. The essays address the connections between science and culture and relate astronomical practices to the cultures which produced them. Each essay is well illustrated and contains an extensive bibliography. Because the geographic range is global, the book fills a gap in both the history of science and in cultural studies. It should find a place on the bookshelves of advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars, as well as in libraries serving those groups.

Culture and Cosmos Vol 20 1 And 2

Author : Nicholas Campion
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1907767746

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Culture and Cosmos Vol 20 1 And 2 by Nicholas Campion Pdf

A collection of papers from the 2014 University of Wales Trinity Saint David/ Sophia Centre conference on the Marriage of Heaven and Earth, held in Bath, UK.

Cultural Geography, Form and Process

Author : Neelam Grover,Kashi N. Singh
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Human geography
ISBN : 8180690741

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Cultural Geography, Form and Process by Neelam Grover,Kashi N. Singh Pdf

Covers A Wide Range Of Cultural Concerns Such As-Methodological Statements, Impression Of Culture On Landscape, Cultural Processes And Change, Cultural Traits And Distribution And Cultural Ecology, Has 29 Papers Contributed By Eminent Geographers From Indian And Abroad. Researchers In Cultural Geography, Anthropology, Sociology And History Will Find It Useful.

African Cultural Astronomy

Author : Jarita Holbrook,R. Thebe Medupe,Johnson O. Urama
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402066399

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African Cultural Astronomy by Jarita Holbrook,R. Thebe Medupe,Johnson O. Urama Pdf

This is the first scholarly collection of articles focused on the cultural astronomy of the African continent. It weaves together astronomy, anthropology, and Africa and it includes African myths and legends about the sky, alignments to celestial bodies found at archaeological sites and at places of worship, rock art with celestial imagery, and scientific thinking revealed in local astronomy traditions including ethnomathematics and the creation of calendars.

Cosmic Order and Divine Power

Author : Johan C. Thom
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161528093

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Cosmic Order and Divine Power by Johan C. Thom Pdf

The treatise De mundo offers a cosmology in the Peripatetic tradition which subordinates what happens in the cosmos to the might of an omnipotent god. Thus the work is paradigmatic for the philosophical and religious concepts of the early imperial age, which offer points of contact with nascent Christianity.

Intersections of Religion and Astronomy

Author : Chris Corbally,Darry Dinell,Aaron Ricker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000217278

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Intersections of Religion and Astronomy by Chris Corbally,Darry Dinell,Aaron Ricker Pdf

This volume examines the way in which cultural ideas about "the heavens" shape religious ideas and are shaped by them in return. Our approaches to cosmology have a profound effect on the way in which we each deal with religious questions and participate in the imaginative work of public and private world-building. Employing an interdisciplinary team of international scholars, each chapter shows how religion and cosmology interrelate and matter for real people. Historical and contemporary case studies are included to demonstrate the lived reality of a variety of faith traditions and their interactions with the cosmos. This breadth of scope allows readers to get a unique overview of how religion, science and our view of space have, and will continue to, impact our worldviews. Offering a comprehensive exploration of humanity and its relationship with cosmology, this book will be an important reference for scholars of Religion and Science, Religion and Culture, Interreligious Dialogue and Theology, as well as those interested in Science and Culture and Public Education.

Change and Continuity in Early Modern Cosmology

Author : Patrick Bonner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400700376

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Change and Continuity in Early Modern Cosmology by Patrick Bonner Pdf

Viewed as a flashpoint of the Scientific Revolution, early modern astronomy witnessed a virtual explosion of ideas about the nature and structure of the world. This study explores these theories in a variety of intellectual settings, challenging our view of modern science as a straightforward successor to Aristotelian natural philosophy. It shows how astronomers dealt with celestial novelties by deploying old ideas in new ways and identifying more subtle notions of cosmic rationality. Beginning with the celestial spheres of Peurbach and ending with the evolutionary implications of the new star Mira Ceti, it surveys a pivotal phase in our understanding of the universe as a place of constant change that confirmed deeper patterns of cosmic order and stability.

Astrology and Cosmology in the World's Religions

Author : Nicholas Campion
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814717141

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Astrology and Cosmology in the World's Religions by Nicholas Campion Pdf

Presents overviews of the astrologies of the world's religions, discussing how various cultures have used celestial observations and beliefs about the heavens to engage with the divine and understand their lives on Earth.

Foundations of New World Cultural Astronomy

Author : Anthony F. Aveni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131668530

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Foundations of New World Cultural Astronomy by Anthony F. Aveni Pdf

Cultural astronomy, first called archaeoastronomy, has evolved at ferocious speed since its genesis in the 1960s, with seminal essays and powerful rebuttals published in far-flung, specialized journals. Until now, only the most closely involved scholars could follow the intellectual fireworks. In Foundations of New World Cultural Astronomy, Anthony Aveni, one of cultural astronomy's founders and top scholars, offers a selection of the essays that built the field, from foundational works to contemporary scholarship.

Culture and Cosmos Vol 17 Number 1

Author : Nicholas Campion,Jennifer Zahrt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 190776769X

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Culture and Cosmos Vol 17 Number 1 by Nicholas Campion,Jennifer Zahrt Pdf

This issue of CULTURE AND COSMOS presents a collection of articles that delve into the intersections between textuality and cultural astronomy and astrology. Clifford J. Cunningham and Gunter Oestmann discuss a robust collection of verse concerning the discovery of new astronomical bodies at the turn of the nineteenth century. Dorian Knight explores a potential covert encoding of astronomical observation in poetic form in the Eddic myth Havamal, suggesting how this astronomical knowledge aids in unraveling the mythological content of the narrative. Karen Smyth discusses the role of technical astronomical and astrological expressions in medieval literature by authors such as Geoffrey Chaucer and Adelard of Bath, among others. Then, Kirk Little performs a literary analysis of Washington Irving's 1832 tale, 'The Legend of the Arabian Astrologer'. Moving from a fictional Egypt to a real one, Guiliano Masola and Nicola Reggiani examine a curious papyrus, dated to 194 CE, that offers insight into the role astrology may have played in everyday life in ancient Eygpt. Finally, Reinhard Mussik presents a research note about a fascinating text from former East Germany in terms of its Marxist cosmology. Together these articles display the myriad angles from which one can approach the intersections of literary analysis and cultural astronomy and astrology. -Jennifer Zahrt, editor