This Is A New Release Of The Original 1894 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1871 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1894 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1904 Edition.

THIS 28 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Dawn of Astronomy, by J. Norman Lockyer. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564591123.

THIS 28 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Dawn of Astronomy, by J. Norman Lockyer. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564591123.

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1904. The newer the science, the more wary must be the steps. In the newest of all the sciences, therefore, which enables us to regard matter wheresoever situated from an entirely new point of view, the investigator's caution much be redoubled, and those who would follow him must be careful to secure firm foothold at every step. Fortunately, the laws and phenomena of nature have such a oneness with their diversity, and are so exquisitely intertwined, that it is possible for us in the consideration of any new branch of science to aid our conceptions by mental images derived from the older sciences or ordinary phenomena, and this is especially true for that science now under consideration.

A Study of the Temple-Worship and Mythology of the Ancient Egyptians; Contents: The Worship of the Sun and the Dawn; First Glimpses of Egyptian Astronomy; Astronomical Basis of the Egyptian Pantheon; Two Horizons; Yearly Path of the sun-God; Probable Hor-Shesu Worship; Methods of Determining the Orientation of Temples; Earliest Solar Shrines in Egypt; Other Similar Shrines Elsewhere; Solar Temple of Amen-Ra at Karnak; Age of the Temple of Amen-Ra at Karnak; Stars-Their Risings and Settings; Egyptian Heavens-Zodiacs of Denderah; Circumpolar Constellations: The Myth of Horus; Temples Directed to the Stars; Further Inquiries with Regard to the Stellar Temples; Building Inscriptions; Star Temples at Karnak; Personification of Stars-Temple of Isis at Denderah; Temple of Hathor at Denderah; Star-Cults; Egyptian Year and the Nile; Years of 360 and 365 Days; Vague and the Sirian Years; Sothic Cycle and the Use made of it; Calendar and its Revision; Fixed Year and Festival Calendars; Mythology of Isis and Osiris; Temple-Stars; History of Sun-Worship at Annu and Thebes; Early Temple and Great Pyramid Builders; Cult of Northern as Opposed to Southern Stars; Origin of Egyptian Astronomy-Northern Schools; General Conclusions as to the North and South Races; Egyptian and Babylonian Ecliptic Constellations; Influence of Egypt Upon Temple-Orientation in Greece.

THIS 26 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Dawn of Astronomy, by J. Norman Lockyer. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564591123.

1871. Accompanied with numerous illustrations and celestial charts of the northern and the southern hemisphere. A great companion book to the author's Dawn of Astronomy.

THIS 44 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Dawn of Astronomy, by J. Norman Lockyer. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564591123.

THIS 46 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Dawn of Astronomy, by J. Norman Lockyer. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564591123.

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

THIS 16 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Dawn of Astronomy, by J. Norman Lockyer. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564591123.

THIS 18 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Dawn of Astronomy, by J. Norman Lockyer. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564591123.

THIS 18 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Dawn of Astronomy, by J. Norman Lockyer. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564591123.

THIS 22 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Dawn of Astronomy, by J. Norman Lockyer. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564591123.

THIS 24 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Dawn of Astronomy, by J. Norman Lockyer. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564591123.

THIS 24 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Dawn of Astronomy, by J. Norman Lockyer. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564591123.

THIS 28 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Dawn of Astronomy, by J. Norman Lockyer. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564591123.