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This book introduces readers to the astonishing civilisation of the Incas. Its novelty lies in its general but highly informative synthesis of their history and astronomy through the accounts of contemporary chronicles and recent archaeological findings. Richly illustrated with the author's own photographs, it will attract the attention of seasoned travellers interested in ancient civilisations and keen to discover what people were capable of achieving so long ago, but also any reader interested in the history and prehistory of South American peoples, including students or university researchers wanting to know more about the pre-Columbian civilizations of Peru. The Inca civilisation was in fact the culmination of cultural contributions from a dozen or so complex pre-Columbian civilizations, such as those of Chavín, Nazca, Wari, or Tiwanaku. Intensely spiritual, the Inca people attributed metaphysical powers to all manner of objects and places they considered sacred, but at the same time the numerous alignments in their buildings show that they result from careful observations of the Sun, the Moon, and the stars at different times of the year. Indeed, the Incas were an essentially agrarian people, so time measurement and calendar devices were essential for the purely pragmatic problem of planning agricultural tasks during the tropical year. The book sets out to describe the Incas in their historical and geographical context, avoiding specialization or excessive technicality, but retaining a certain scientific rigor, and including a detailed consideration of their interest in the sky and astronomy.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本書向讀者介紹了印加文明的驚人之處。其新穎之處在於通過當代編年史的記載和最近的考古發現，對他們的歷史和天文學進行了一個一般但高度資訊化的綜合。書中豐富的插圖來自作者自己的照片，將吸引對古代文明感興趣的資深旅行者，並渴望發現人類在那麼久以前能夠達成的成就的讀者，同時也適合任何對南美人民的歷史和史前史感興趣的讀者，包括希望了解更多有關秘魯前哥倫布文明的學生或大學研究者。事實上，印加文明是來自十幾個複雜的前哥倫布文明（如查賓、納斯卡、瓦里或提瓦納庫）的文化貢獻的巔峰。印加人民極具靈性，將形而上學的力量歸於他們認為神聖的各種物體和地方，但同時，他們建築中的眾多對齊顯示出這些是基於對太陽、月亮和星星在一年不同時期的仔細觀察而來的。事實上，印加人本質上是一個以農業為主的民族，因此時間測量和日曆裝置對於在熱帶年中規劃農業任務的純粹實用問題至關重要。這本書旨在描述印加人在其歷史和地理背景下的情況，避免專業化或過度技術性，但保持一定的科學嚴謹性，並詳細考慮他們對天空和天文學的興趣。
作者簡介
Emile Biémont is Honorary Research Director of the belgian FNRS, Honorary professor of the University of Mons (Belgium) and Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium. His fields of investigation concern theoretical and experimental atomic spectroscopy with applications to laser physics, plasma physics and astrophysics. He has been involved also intensively in teaching and research in astrophysics and particularly in solar and stellar physics, namely in abundance determinations. He is also interested in the history of science and popularization of science. He is the author (or co-author) of approximately 370 scientific publications in physics and astrophysics. He has published 15 books on subjects as diverse as the light, the meteors, the calendars, the rainbow, the astronomy in the islamic world, the atomic and molecular spectroscopy, the time measurement and the history of atomic physics.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
埃米爾·比耶蒙特（Emile Biémont）是比利時國家科學研究基金會（FNRS）的名譽研究主任，蒙斯大學（University of Mons，位於比利時）的名譽教授，以及比利時皇家學院的成員。他的研究領域包括理論和實驗原子光譜學，並應用於激光物理、等離子體物理和天體物理學。他也積極參與天體物理學的教學和研究，特別是在太陽和恆星物理學方面，尤其是豐度測定。他對科學史和科學普及也有興趣。他是約370篇物理學和天體物理學的科學出版物的作者（或合著者）。他出版了15本書，主題涵蓋光、流星、日曆、彩虹、伊斯蘭世界的天文學、原子和分子光譜學、時間測量以及原子物理學的歷史等多樣化的內容。
