Time And Astronomy In Past Cultures
by Arkadiusz Soltysiak /
2009 / English / PDF
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The present volume contains papers presented at the conference “Time and Astronomy in Past Cultures” which was held in Toruñ early spring last year. This meeting was organised as a commemoration of the late Andrzej Wierciñski (1930–2003) who after a long academic career in the fields of physical and cul-tural nthropology initiated at Warsaw University in mid-1970s the scholarly research on astronomy in culture and ancient calendars. His studies (published e.g. in “Almogaren”) concerned chie‚y the astronomy, calendars, and cosmogonyof ancient Mexico, although occasionally Professor Wierciñski discussed also the Biblical and Egyptian topics. The most comprehensive collection of His writings has been published in the book “Tlillan–Tlapallan. Estudios sobre la religión mesoamericana” (Polish Society for Latin American Studies: Warsaw 1999).
