Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Ancient World

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FURTHER READING
Anthony F. Aveni, Ancient Astronomers (Montreal: St. Remy Press,
1993).
Anthony F. Aveni, Stairways to the Stars: Skywatching in Th ree Great
Ancient Cultures (New York: Wiley, 1997).
Anthony F. Aveni, Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico, 2nd ed. (Austin:
University of Texas Press, 2001).
Anthony F. Aveni, Empires of Time: Calendars, Clocks, and Cultures,
rev. ed. (Boulder.: University Press of Colorado, 2002).
Arthur Berry, A Short History of Astronomy: From Earliest Times
through the Nineteenth Century, rpt. ed. (New York: Dover
Publications, 1961).
Marshall Clagett, Ancient Egyptian Science: A Source Book. Vol. 2:
Calendars, Clocks, and Astronomy (Philadelphia: American
Philosophical Society, 1995).
Th eony Condos, Star Myths of the Greeks and Romans: A Source-
book (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Phanes Press, 1997).
James Cornell, Th e First Stargazers: An Introduction to the Origins of
Astronomy (New York: Scribner, 1981).
Kevin Cuff , African Skies (Berkeley: Lawrence Hall of Science Holt
Planetarium, University of California, Berkeley, 1997).
David Ewing Duncan, Calendar: Humanity’s Epic Struggle to Deter-
mine a True and Accurate Year (New York: Avon, 1998).
James Evans, Th e History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy (New
York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
Th omas L. Heath, Greek Astronomy, rpt. (Mineola, N.Y.: Dover
Publications, 1991).
Michael Hoskin, ed., Th e Cambridge Illustrated History of Astrono-
my (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1996).


Wayne Horowitz, Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography. Mesopota-
mian Civilizations 8 (Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1998).
Hermann Hunger and David Pingree, Astral Sciences in Mesopota-
mia (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 1999).
David H. Kelly and Eugene F. Milone, Exploring Ancient Skies: An
Encyclopedic Survey of Archaeoastronomy (New York: Spring-
er, 2005).
Ulla Koch-Westenholz, Mesopotamian Astrology: An Introduction
to Babylonian and Assyrian Celestial Divination. CNI Publica-
tions 19. (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1995).
Edwin C. Krupp, ed., In Search of Ancient Astronomies (Garden
City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1977).
Otto Neugebauer and Richard A. Parker, Egyptian Astronomical
Te x t s (Providence, R.I.: Brown University Press, 1960–1969).
Erica Reiner, Astral Magic in Babylonia (Philadelphia: American
Philosophical Society, 1995).
Francesca Rochberg, Th e Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy,
and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture (Cambridge, U.K.:
Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Clive Ruggles, Ancient Astronomy: An Encyclopedia of Cosmologies
and Myth (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2005).
Helaine Selin and Sun Xiaochun, eds., Astronomy across Cultures:
Th e History of Non-Western Astronomy (Dordrecht, Nether-
lands: Kluwer, 2000).
Ivan Sprajc, “Astronomical Alignments at Teotihuacán, Mexico,”
Latin American Antiquity 11, no. 4 (2000): 403–415.
Christopher Walker, ed., Astronomy before the Telescope (London:
British Museum Press, 1996).
Ray A. Williamson, ed., Archaeoastronomy in the Americas (Los Al-
tos, Calif.: Ballena Press, 1981).

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