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CHARTING THE HEAVENS

 

Robert D. Morritt

 

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          This book looks at ancient astronomy also astrology in Hellenistic Egypt and Babylonian influence of astrology in Greece and its later appearance in Medieval Islam.  Archaic astronomical inventions such as an ancient Greek Armillary sphere, Babylon water clocks, the Compass .The study of equinoxes and the intriguing ancient corroded Antikythera mechanism discovered underwater. An ancient Greek Armillary sphere and a Medieval analog computer.  The discovery of the Dendera Zodiac. Inventions such as the Astrarium, the Astrolabe, Armillary Spheres, the Orrery. The Classical age features an overview of the inventions of Archimedes, the works of Erastosthenes of Cyrene, Hecataeus of Miletus, Heron of Alexandria and Philo of Byzantium and Hipparchus of Nicaea amongst others (An intriguing overview of Classical Age scientists.