SYMMETRY REVISITED††This paper is based on lectures presented to the New York Academy of Sciences, 6 November 1986, and to the Special Session on “The Mathematical Science of Hermann Weyl: A Centenary Tribute”, American Mathematical Society, Amherst, Mass., 26 October 1985.

Symmetry 2 ◽  
1989 ◽  
pp. 1-12
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M. SENECHAL
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pp. 127-132
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The previous paper was first published in 1982, when ethnoastronomy was still in its infancy. It appeared in Ethnoastronomy and Archaeoastronomy in the American Tropics, Tony Aveni and Gary Urton’s edited proceedings of an international conference held at the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium in New York under the auspices of the New York Academy of Sciences. Aveni and Urton were true pioneers who opened up a new interdisciplinary field of research that brought together astronomers, anthropologists, archaeologists, historians and others, all interested in astronomical knowledge amongst contemporary indigenous societies, in how buildings, settlements and archaeological monuments were aligned with recurrent events in the sky, and in how such alignments matched up with astronomical information contained in ancient codices and other historical documents and in contemporary ethnographic accounts.

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