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URANOS : STARS, CONSTELLATIONS AND SKY LORE all publics – educators & pedagogues – researchers & passionate amateurs
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Updating on 07/10/2009
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Formation of our celestial vault Sky representations and star lore in the different cultures Project « The Sky, our common Heritage »
Listening at Arab Astronomy, after a Renaissance printing |
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Formation of our celestial vault : uranography, individual stars, constellations, planets, etc.
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Celestial sphere is constituted of several strata: * Mesopotamia gave us: premisses of the spheric form with its parts and its metrology, the half of Greek classical 44 constellations, planet names taken up by Greeks, directly or via peoples of Syria or these of Aramaic Language. * Hellenic and Latin civilisation bequeathed to us: the developped conception of celestial sphere, the formalisation into constellations with their mythology and some stars and plantes names. * Arab civilisation brought us the two thirds of star names which conceal unknown figures and mythology. * Modern Europe acheaved the division of the sphere in constellations which number was fixed to 88 par IAU (International Astronomical Union) in 1922-1930. * The others civilisations and cultures regularly supply us nowadays with new time-honoured star names. |
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Sky representations and star lore in the different cultures
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Near & Middle East cultures |
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Star Names Dictionary (in French) |
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Planets |
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Datas on Lunar Mansions in the different cultures (in French) |
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Compared sky parts in the different cultures |
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Mensual astronomical Cards (in French) |
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Astrolabe, the mathematical instruments King (in French) |
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Materials for a study on astral names Near Orient sacred texts : Enûma Elish, Bible, Coran. (in French) |
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Celestial Sky figures & Sky lore, as a springboard for astronomical knowledge by Roland Laffitte |
Project : « The Sky, our Common Heritage »
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Out of the 88 constellations used by the International Union of Astronomy (IUA), 48 were already in existence in Ancient Greece, which itself inherited half of them from Babylon, in particular the twelve constel-lations of the zodiac. As for the stars, two-thirds are commonly known by Arabic names, the most famous being Aldebaran, Altair, Betelgueuse, Rigel and Vega. The project in a nutshell The idea is to create, for educational purposes, a comparative representation of the heavens in Mesopotamian, Greek, Arab and contemporary cultures. This would be made available to planetariums in countries all around the Mediterranean, and then adapted to other vehicles of communication: globes, planispheres, DVDs, websites, etc. The Selefa invites from now on all those wishing the success of this projet to patronate it or contribute to its study and set it up, and calls the institutions, associations and foundations ready to take up the challenge to build a partneship for its achievement. . |
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