跨文化的天文学
Astronomy Across Cultures
Helaine Selin · 初版 2000 年
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Astronomy Across Cultures: A History of Non-Western Astronomy 收录了一系列探讨美欧以外文化的重大天文学知识与信仰的论文。除了概述伊斯兰、中国、美洲原住民、澳大利亚原住民、波利尼西亚、埃及和西藏等地的天文学文章外，本书还包含了探讨 Sky Tales and Why We Tell Them（天空传说与我们为何讲述它们）、Astronomy and Prehistory（天文学与史前史）以及 Astronomy and Astrology（天文学与占星术）的专论。这些文章探讨了科学与文化之间的联系，并将天文实践与孕育它们的文化紧密结合起来。每篇论文都由
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那我这里有本你可能会喜欢的书。我最近发现有一本叫《跨文化天文学》（Astronomy Across Cultures）的书，因为我对民族天文学感兴趣有一阵子了（看看其他人如何与星空互动、如何描述星空，总是件很酷的事。可惜随着语言的消亡，很多这类信息正在流失……
I've got a book you might like then. I recently discovered there was an 'Astronomy Across Cultures' book, as ethnoastronomy is something I've been interested in for a while (It's always neat to see how other people interact and describe the stars and sky. Shame a lot of this info is being lost as languages…
……新月之后初次看到蛾眉月）。不过我想至少拿出一整期来聊聊古代和中世纪的犹太天文学。《跨文化天文学》里有一章由茨维·朗格曼撰写的文章专门讲这个，写得很好。我的计划是讲完希腊后简单聊聊罗马，然后转向西方天文学“主线”之外的文化天文学（比如旧石器时代……
…the crescent moon was first visible after the new moon.) But I would like to devote at least a full episode on Jewish astronomy, both ancient and medieval. There's a nice chapter by Tzvi Langermann in Astronomy Across Cultures on the subject. My plan is to briefly cover the Romans after finishing with the Greeks, and then turn to the astronomy of cultures that fall outside the "main thread" of Western astronomy (e.g., paleolithic…