The Maya and Aztecs' Sky: A Fascinating Astronomy and Cosmology
暫譯: 瑪雅與阿茲特克的天空：迷人的天文學與宇宙學
Biémont, Émile
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2025-09-27
- 售價: $2,180
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $2,071
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 402
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 3031959663
- ISBN-13: 9783031959660
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商品描述
This book immerses the reader in the fascinating history of the Mesoamerican peoples, Aztec and Maya in particular. Although these two Mesoamerican cultures developed at very different periods, they present numerous convergences and similarities, from an attraction to ritual ball games to advanced astronomical knowledge and close intertwining of the lives of people and the observation of the sky.
Astronomy provided a relationship between religious ideas and daily or seasonal agricultural practices and was therefore of major importance in Mesoamerican societies. This work highlights the importance of time-measuring devices and calendars used for planning of agricultural tasks during the different seasons and sacred rituals. The history of the Aztec and Maya people, strongly associated with legends and myths, is imbued with an astonishing and omnipresent spirituality which is discussed in detail in this work. The pantheon of these two peoples was very extensive, the religion often integrating the heritage of previous cultures in the same way that the empire appropriated the artisanal know-how of the conquered regions.
Amply illustrated with photographs by the author and documents from codices, this book is aimed at a very wide audience, from enthusiasts of history, ethnology, and astronomy to students or researchers interested in the pre-Hispanic civilizations of Mexico.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本書讓讀者沉浸在中美洲民族，特別是阿茲特克和瑪雅的迷人歷史中。儘管這兩種中美洲文化在非常不同的時期發展，但它們在許多方面存在著交集和相似之處，從對儀式球賽的吸引力到先進的天文知識，以及人們的生活與觀察天空之間的緊密交織。
天文學在宗教思想與日常或季節性農業實踐之間提供了一種關係，因此在中美洲社會中具有重要意義。本書強調了用於規劃不同季節的農業任務和神聖儀式的時間測量裝置和日曆的重要性。阿茲特克和瑪雅人民的歷史與傳說和神話密切相關，充滿了驚人且無處不在的靈性，這在本書中有詳細的討論。這兩個民族的神祇體系非常廣泛，宗教經常融合了先前文化的遺產，就像帝國吸收被征服地區的手工藝技術一樣。
本書配有作者的照片和古代手稿的文件，旨在吸引廣泛的讀者群，從歷史、民族學和天文學的愛好者到對墨西哥前西班牙文明感興趣的學生或研究者。
作者簡介
Emile Biémont is Honorary Research Director of the belgian FNRS, Honorary professor of the University of Mons (Belgium) and Emeritus member of the Royal Academy of Belgium. His fields of investigation concern theoretical and experimental atomic spectroscopy with applications to laser physics, plasma physics and astrophysics. He has been involved intensively in teaching and research in astrophysics and particularly in solar and stellar physics, namely in abundance determinations.
He is also interested in the history of science and popularization of science. He is the author (or co-author) of approximately 370 scientific publications in physics and astrophysics. He has published 15 books on subjects as diverse as the light, the meteors, the calendars, the rainbow, the astronomy in the islamic world, the atomic and molecular spectroscopy, the time measurement and the history of atomic physics, including his latest book published by Springer in 2024, The Incas' Sky.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
埃米爾·比耶蒙特（Emile Biémont）是比利時國家科學研究基金會（FNRS）的名譽研究主任、蒙斯大學（University of Mons，位於比利時）的名譽教授，以及比利時皇家學院的榮譽成員。他的研究領域涉及理論和實驗原子光譜學，並應用於激光物理、等離子體物理和天體物理學。他在天體物理學的教學和研究方面投入了大量精力，特別是在太陽和恆星物理學方面，尤其是在豐度測定方面。
他還對科學史和科學普及感興趣。他是約370篇物理學和天體物理學的科學出版物的作者（或合著者）。他出版了15本書，主題涵蓋光、流星、日曆、彩虹、伊斯蘭世界的天文學、原子和分子光譜學、時間測量以及原子物理學的歷史，包括他在2024年由Springer出版的最新著作《印加人的天空》（The Incas' Sky）。
