Calculating brilliance : an intellectual history of Mayan astronomy at Chich'en Itza /

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Author / Creator:Aldana y Villalobos, Gerardo, author.
Imprint:Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2021.
©2021
Description:xvi, 446 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12724129
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ISBN:9780816542208
0816542201
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-433) and index.
Summary:"This book contextualizes the discovery of a Venus astronomical pattern by a female Mayan astronomer at Chich'en Itza and the discovery's later adaptation and application at Mayapan. Calculating Brilliance brings different intellectual threads together across time and space, from the Classic to the Postclassic, the colonial period to the twenty-first century to offer a new vision for understanding Mayan astronomy"--

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