Conversing with the Planets (rev. ed.)

How Science and Myth Invented the Cosmos

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by Anthony Aveni

University Press of Colorado

Due/Published December 2002, 328 pages, paper

ISBN 087081673X

Revised and updated, Conversing With The Planets interweaves astronomy, mythology, and anthropology to explore what the universe means to us and what it meant to our ancestors. Aveni also deftly illustrates the influence of our culture and beliefs on the path of scientific discovery, tracing the rise and fall of astronomy as blown by the prevailing winds of religious, philosophical, and political change