Decoding Astronomy in Art and Architecture - Dolan, Marion
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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…mehr

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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.

Autorenporträt
Marion Dolan is an adjunct professor at Florida Atlantic University; she received a BS in History and Philosophy of Science, a MA and PhD in the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh majoring in medieval scientific manuscripts. Her lifelong study of history of art, of astronomy and of archaeology assure a commitment to scientific accuracy in her writing. Her book, Astronomical Knowledge Transmission through Illustrated Aratea Manuscripts, was adapted from her doctoral dissertation. Her second book, Decoding Astronomy in Art and Architecture, focuses on archaeoastronomy and explains the important astronomical information hidden within ancient temples, sacred monuments and artworks around the world, such as Avebury, Borobudur and Angkor Wat. She has also written a novel on the fascinating life of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II on Kindle and writes review for online astronomical journals. Professor Dolan has traveled extensively and visited many of the intriguing ruins that she writes about.
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"I enjoyed reading this book. I revelled in the ancient art, I was amazed by many of the old buildings, I was pleased to see the extensive lists of references to the hard work of archaeologists and archaeoastronomers. But I was left wondering whether the town planners, the artists, or the architects ... knew much about astronomy. ... The reader needs convincing before trying to decode something that might not even be present." (David W. Hughes, The Observatory,June, 2022)

"This book is certainly the most accessible survey of worldwide archaeo-astronomy that has been published of late. It is enhanced by scores of photographs, all in colour ... . Dolan has done a tremendous service to the oft-maligned and misunderstood study of archaeoastronomy. And with its broad remit in both time and space, this will remain for many years a valuable planet-wide survey of sites from the prehistoric to the Renaissance." (Clifford Cunningham, Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, VOl. 24 (4), 2021)