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Dark Sky Legacy - Astronomy's Impact on the History of Culture (Hardcover, New)
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Dark Sky Legacy - Astronomy's Impact on the History of Culture (Hardcover, New)
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The way mankind has responded to the dark sky throughout history
has determined humanity's scientific - and cultural - progress. In
this way, astronomy is in some way connected to everything. This
fascinating theme is explored in Dark Sky Legacy.
George Reed examines the powerful influence of the cosmos on
cultural and societal development, reviewing mankind's historical
propensity for projecting human experience into a cosmic framework
and the centuries-old relationship between astronomy and astrology,
the result of which is the emergence of the age of science. Since
then, he writes, the purpose of astronomy has been to observe
celestial objects for the advancement of scientific knowledge,
while astrology deals only in the possibility that celestial bodies
influence events on Earth.
Reed asserts that the movement away from an inward-looking,
"meaningful" cosmos toward an outward-gazing, impersonal one is a
shift that has had enormous repercussions in every aspect of human
life. He points out that astrology provides a scheme in which the
believer is an integral component of an animistic, cyclical
universe. Conversely, the pursuit of science and astronomy is a
mechanistic, linear activity, which seeks extrinsic answers in
terms of precise relationships between sense perceptions.
Dark Sky Legacy probes the divergent approaches to the universe
that compel individuals and cultures to pursue astrology or
astronomy, the intuitive or the analytical. Blending modern
science, ancient science, mythology, history, literature, and
naked-eye astronomy, and spiced with fascinating detail about
astronomy, astrology, celestial mythology, and calendar
development, the book is an engrossing study of the profound impact
of mankind's relationship with the universe.
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