Overview
- Written by two expert researchers in the field
- Includes a glossary of terms in astronomy and Egyptology
- Contains over 200 detailed tables, drawings, diagrams and full-color images
Part of the book series: Historical & Cultural Astronomy (HCA)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
The chapters in this work address all major topics in the field, including Egyptian cosmogony and worldview, timekeeping devices and calendars, landscapes and skyscapes, astronomy-influenced architecture, chronology and more. Each chapter includes an introduction, an overview of the existing documentation on the subject, a critical discussion of ongoing debates and questions, and a presentation of state-of-the-art research.
Straddling the line between Egyptology and astronomy, this multidisciplinary book will appeal to any scholar or specialist interested in studying ancient Egyptianastronomy.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Juan Antonio Belmonte Avilés is Research Professor of Astronomy at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (Tenerife, Spain) where he investigates exoplanetsand cultural astronomy. He has published or edited nearly twenty books and authored more than 200 publications on those subjects. He has been the president of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC) from 2005 to 2011, and of the International Society for Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture (ISAAC) from 2017 to 2020, and is the current president of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Commission C4 “World Heritage and Astronomy”. In 2012 he received the "Carlos Jaschek" award of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture for his contributions to the discipline. He has performed extensive research on the astronomical traditions of ancient civilizations, concentrating in the ancient Mediterranean cultures, notably in Egypt.
José Lull García studied Egyptology at the University of Tübingen (Germany). He is a specialist in history and chronology of the Egyptian New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period, as well as in ancient Egyptian astronomy. He is currently a researcher at the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies (IEPOA) and lecturer at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain). He has written several books on Egyptology and more than one hundred articles published in scientific and outreach journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Astronomy of Ancient Egypt
Book Subtitle: A Cultural Perspective
Authors: Juan Antonio Belmonte, José Lull
Series Title: Historical & Cultural Astronomy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11829-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11828-9Published: 04 April 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11831-9Published: 05 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-11829-6Published: 03 April 2023
Series ISSN: 2509-310X
Series E-ISSN: 2509-3118
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVIII, 588
Number of Illustrations: 738 b/w illustrations, 190 illustrations in colour
Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, History of Science, Cosmology