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The Cosmos in Stone
Author | : Tom Bree |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10 |
Genre | : Architecture and cosmology |
ISBN | : 1906069212 |
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This beautiful and groundbreaking book examines the use of sacred geometry and cosmology in Gothic cathedral design. Renowned geometer and lecturer Tom Bree demonstrates how medieval Master Masons combined their knowledge of the practical building arts with ancient cosmological knowledge to endow their constructions with profound spiritual meaning. Wells Cathedral, the focus of this book, was England's first Gothic cathedral, and its design symbolises the soul's cosmic journey from Earth and underworld to the heavens. Bree shows how the medieval Christian fascination with the knowledge of the ancient world laid the foundations for the more recent mythos involving the Templars, Freemasonry and Pyramidology. Packed with rare illustrations and original diagrams, this is a book to treasure.
A Cosmos in Stone
Author | : David J. Lewis-Williams |
Publsiher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2002-04-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780759116719 |
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J. David Lewis-Williams is world renowned for his work on the rock art of Southern Africa. In this volume, Lewis-Williams describes the key steps in his evolving journey to understand these images painted on stone. He describes the development of technical methods of interpreting rock paintings of the 1970s, shows how a growing understanding of San mythology, cosmology, and ethnography helped decode the complex paintings, and traces the development of neuropsychological models for understanding the relationship between belief systems and rock art. The author then applies his theories to the famous rock paintings of prehistoric Western Europe in an attempt to develop a comprehensive theory of rock art. For students of rock art, archaeology, ethnography, comparative religion, and art history, Lewis-Williams' book will be a provocative read and an important reference.
Early Man and the Cosmos
Author | : Evan Hadingham |
Publsiher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0806119195 |
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An examination of ancient astronomy looks at the myths and beliefs about the heavens that influenced everyday life in these primitive cultures
Mindsteps to the Cosmos
Author | : Gerald S. Hawkins |
Publsiher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9789812381231 |
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Mindsteps to the Cosmos shows how modern global civilization depends on giant leaps of understanding that have been made in the past. Science and technology have been inspired and formulated by the sky ? the cosmos in which we live. Human development could not have taken place on a cloud-shrouded planet. Mathematics was invented to track the movements of the sun, moon and stars even though back then these were thought to be gods. The space program has taken us beyond the earth, and satellite systems are exploring to the ends of the visible universe. This book provides the reader with algorithms to construct personal computer programs for finding the position of the moon and planets, and for calculating dates through historic periods in the Egyptian as well as the old and new style calendars.
The Stone Circles of Britain Ireland and Brittany
Author | : Aubrey Burl |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0300083475 |
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The spectacular stone circles of western Europe, some nearly 6000 years old, have intrigued viewers through the ages. This beautiful book about these megalithic rings explores their ancestry, methods of construction, and eventual desertion. A substantially revised version of Aubrey Burl's highly praised work The Stone Circles of the British Isles, it offers new insights into the purpose of stone circles. It also provides a new interpretation of Stonehenge and of Callanish in Scotland, the first overview of the cromlechs in Brittany, a discussion of the problems of archaeoastronomy as related to stone circles, a greatly expanded Gazetteer, and an up-to-date list of radiocarbon dates and recent excavations.
An Archaeology of the Cosmos
Author | : Timothy R. Pauketat |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2012-12-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781136196379 |
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An Archaeology of the Cosmos seeks answers to two fundamental questions of humanity and human history. The first question concerns that which some use as a defining element of humanity: religious beliefs. Why do so many people believe in supreme beings and holy spirits? The second question concerns changes in those beliefs. What causes beliefs to change? Using archaeological evidence gathered from ancient America, especially case material from the Great Plains and the pre-Columbian American Indian city of Cahokia, Timothy Pauketat explores the logical consequences of these two fundamental questions. Religious beliefs are not more resilient than other aspects of culture and society, and people are not the only causes of historical change. An Archaeology of the Cosmos examines the intimate association of agency and religion by studying how relationships between people, places, and things were bundled together and positioned in ways that constituted the fields of human experience. This rethinking theories of agency and religion provides readers with challenging and thought provoking conclusions that will lead them to reassess the way they approach the past.
State and Cosmos in the Art of Tenochtitlan
Author | : Richard F. Townsend |
Publsiher | : Dumbarton Oaks |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Indian art |
ISBN | : 0884020835 |
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Townsend offers an interpretation of Mexica monumental art by identifying three interrelated themes: the conception of the universe as sacred structure, the correspondence of the social order and the territory of the nation with the cosmic structure, and the representation of Tenochtitlan as historically legitimate successor to past civilization.
God Humanity and the Cosmos 3rd Edition
Author | : Christopher Southgate |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2011-12-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780567524676 |
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