HI121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Status Symbol, Kikkuli, Bentwood
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3 october 2017: all monuments are related to astronomy. Archeology, where to start: astronomical texts: tables, calendars, observational diaries, astronomical artifacts: art, buildings, devices, astronomy, cosmology, and astrology, light pollution, people in ancient world could see the sky more without light pollution. The megaliths: newgrange (c. 3100bce: brugh a boinne, ireland, michael o"kelly and the roof box , window shaft, on winter solstice, illuminates room and creates spiral pattern on wall, kerbstones, match passage of rising sun. The magaliths: stonehenge: construction begins 3000 2500bce, phase 1, aubrey stone, predicts eclipses, causeway, heel stone, mid point of moon rise, phase 2, avenue, phase 3, sarsen trilithons, axe-head symbol, altar stone. Inseparability of astronomy/astrology: lunar and solar obens (1700bce) and divination, neo-babylonian period (8th century bce 1st century ce) astronomical diaries, figured out cycle of moon, discovered venus, synodic (lunar) months and the saros cykce, birth charts.
