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Title Astronomy of the ancients / edited by Kenneth Brecher and Michael Feirtag.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1979]
©1979

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Description ix, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Medicine wheels and Plains Indian astronomy / John A. Eddy -- Pictographs and petroglyphs of the Southwest Indians / John C. Brandt -- First scientific instruments / Sharon Gibbs -- Old and New World naked-eye astronomy / Anthony F. Aveni -- Sirius enigmas / Kenneth Brecher -- Basic astronomy of Stonehenge / Owen Bingerich -- Gorgon's eye / Jerome Y. Lettvin -- Language of archaic astronomy : a clue to the Atlantis myth? / Harald A.T. Reiche.
Subject Astronomy, Ancient.
Astronomy, Ancient.
Added Author Brecher, Kenneth.
Feirtag, Michael.
ISBN 0262021374
9780262021371