The Dawn of Astronomy
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: August 15, 1964
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780262620031
Subjects: PHYSICS; Astronomy - General; Science / Astronomy; Science
First sentence: WHEN we inquire among which early peoples we are likely to find the first cultivation of astronomy, whatever the form it may have taken, we learn that it is generally agreed by archaeologists that the first civilisations which have so far been traced were those in the Nile Valley and in the adjacent countries in Western Asia.