New York: Copernicus Books, Date: 2005. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xii, 444pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in yellow paper over boards with spine backed in orange and lettered in black. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The book is divided into two parts. In the first, the reader is taken on an ideal ‘world tour' of many wonderful and enigmatic places in almost every continent, in search of traces of astronomical knowledge and lore of the sky. In the second part, Giulio Magli uses the elements presented in the tour to show that the fundamental idea which led to the construction of the astronomically-related giant monuments was the foundation of power, a foundation which was exploited by ‘replicating' the sky. A possible interpretive model then emerges that is founded on the relationship the ancients had with "nature", in the sense of everything that surrounded them, the cosmos. The numerous monumental astronomically aligned structures of the past then become interpretable as acts of will, expressions of power on the part of those who held it; the will to replicate the heavenly plane here on earth and to build sacred landscapes. Finally, having formulated his hypothesis, Professor Magli returns to visit one specific place in detail, searching for proof. This in-depth examination studies the most compelling, the most intensively studied, the most ...

New York, NY: Springer. Good in Good dust jacket. Date: 2009. 1st Edition (Unstated); First Printing. Hardcover. 0387765646 . Speckle stains to exterior edge of pages. Rubbing (shelf wear) to cover and DJ edges. Stains to exterior edge of pages, minor. Good overall condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings.; 6.5 X 1.5 X 9.5 inches; 444 pages . 2009. Springer ISBN 0387765646 9780387765648 [US]

Copernicus Books, Date: 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 24.5 x 16 cm. Octavo. 444pp. Yellow and orange boards in dust jacket. There are some smudges to the foredges. 2009. Copernicus Books ISBN 0387765646 9780387765648 [US]

Copernicus Books, Date: 2009. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 432 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.50 inches. 2009. Copernicus Books ISBN 0387765646 9780387765648 [GB]

ISBN10: 0387765646, ISBN13: 9780387765648, [publisher: Springer New York] Hardcover
[Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2009]
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