Images in the Heavens: A Cultural Landscape

The constellation images with their historically persistent nature and adaptability fulfil many contemporary definitions of culture. From the earliest Elamite seals of the fourth millennium to the list-maps in the first century C.E. through Ptolemy’s Almagest, the constellation images became establi...

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Main Author: Brady, Bernadette 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publ. 2013
In: Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
Year: 2013, Volume: 7, Issue: 4, Pages: 461-484
Further subjects:B sky
B constellational imagery
B Cosmology
B cultural astronomy
B celestial cartography
B Culture
B history of astronomy
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