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This complete, authoritative study of the growing discipline of Archaeoastronomy examines the role of astronomy in antiquity. Professor Giulio Magli provides a clear, up-to-date survey of current thinking on the motives of the ancients for building fabulous and mysterious monuments all over our planet. Was it an attempt to reproduce the sky on Earth, to bring down the power of the stars to where they could see it, worship it and use it? The connecting thread is astronomy: Giulio Magli uses astronomy as a key to understanding our ancestors' way of thinking. It is a challenge he likes to...

Buddhismus spielt zwar im Religionskundeunterricht vieler Länder eine Rolle, jedoch fehlt es an wissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen. Lea Sara Mägli analysiert erstmals den Diskurs über Religion und Buddhismus im Religionskundeunterricht der Sekundarstufe I im Kanton Zürich. Dazu untersucht sie Aussagen von Lehrpersonen, Lehrpläne, Lehrmittel, Ausbildungsunterlagen sowie mediale Darstellungen und setzt sie zueinander in Beziehung. Die Reflexion leistet nicht nur einen Beitrag zur Weiterentwicklung religionskundlicher Fachdidaktik, sondern greift auch gesellschaftlich relevante Themen wie...

This book provides the first comprehensive, easy-to-read, and up-to-date account of the fascinating discipline of archaeoastronomy, in which the relationship between ancient constructions and the sky is studied to gain a better understanding of the ideas of the architects of the past and their religious and symbolic worlds. The book is divided into three sections. The first section discusses in detail the fundamentals of archaeoastronomy, including the celestial coordinates, the apparent motion of the sun, moon, stars, and planets, observation of celestial bodies at the horizon, the use of...

Discover hidden monsters, serpents and other beasts in this coloring book based on historical prints

Discover hidden monsters and awaken serpents, chimeras, dragons and gargoyles in this coloring book inspired by grotesque ornament prints from the 16th and 17th centuries. Animals become alternately ferocious or docile as you color in these delicate designs from the imaginative minds of artists working in the Age of Exploration.
The late-15th-century discovery of ancient Roman murals inspired Renaissance artists and designers, who disseminated their grotesque...