Calculating Brilliance - An Intellectual History of Mayan Astronomy at Chich'en Itza

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.

About the author

Gerardo Aldana y Villalobos is a professor in the Department of Chicana/o Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Apotheosis of Janaab Pakal: Science, History and Religion at Classic Maya Palenque and specializes in Mayan hieroglyphic history and science and technology studies.

Product details

• Authors: Gerardo Aldana
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780816542208
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-4220-8
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 183 mm x 260 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 968 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)