Heritage Sites of Astronomy and Archaeoastronomy in the Context of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention
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Heritage Sites of Astronomy and Archaeoastronomy in the Context of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention

Heritage Sites of Astronomy and Archaeoastronomy in the Context of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention


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Table of Contents:
1 Introduction -- Clive Ruggles and Michel Cotte 1 / 2 Windows to the Universe and potential criteria in the World Heritage Convention context -- Michel Cotte 7 / 3 Seven-stone antas, Portugal and Spain -- Juan Belmonte, Luis Tirapicos and Clive Ruggles 17 / 4 Stonehenge World Heritage Property, United Kingdom -- Amanda Chadburn and Clive Ruggles 41 / 5 Chankillo, Peru -- Ivan Ghezzi 63 / 6 Astronomical timing of irrigation in Oman -- Harriet Nash 79 / 7 L'Observatoire de Paris, France -- Danielle Fauque et Michel Cotte 95 / 8 Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, Republic of South Africa -- Ian Glass 117 / 9 Pic du Midi de Bigorre Observatory, France -- Nicolas Bourgeois 141 / 10 Windows to the Universe: leading optical observatories and their dark skies, Chile, Spain, and United States of America -- Cipriano Marin, Malcolm Smith and Richard Wainscoat 187 / 11 Aoraki-Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve, New Zealand -- Margaret Austin, John Hearnshaw and Alison Loveridge 231 / 12 Eastern Alpine and Grossmugl starlight areas, Austria -- Gunther Wuchterl 263 / 13 Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan -- Mikhail Marov 285 / 14 Discussion -- Clive Ruggles 291

About the Author :
Clive Ruggles is Emeritus Professor of Archaeoastronomy at the University of Leicester and President of Commission C4 (World Heritage and Astronomy) of the International Astronomical Union. Michel Cotte is Emeritus Professor of the History of Technology at the Centre Francois Viete for the History of Science and Technology, University of Nantes, France, and advisor to ICOMOS international for the World Heritage List.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780954086763
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • ISBN-10: 0954086767
  • No of Pages: 312


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