The Sky in Mayan literature /
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1992.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: making time / Anthony F. Aveni
- the road of light: theory and practice of Mayan skywatching / Barbara Tedlock
- A method for cross-dating almanacs with tables in the Dresden Codex / Victoria R. Bricker, Harvey M. Bricker
- The moon and the Venus table: an example of commensuration in the Maya calendar / Aveni
- Eclipse cycles in the moon goddess almanacs in the Dresden Codex / Charles A. Hofling, Thomas O'Neil
- Some parallels in the astronomical events recorded in the Maya codices and inscriptions / Michael P. Closs
- Zodiacal references in the Maya codices and inscriptions / H. Bricker, V. Bricker.
- A derivation of the Mayan-to-Julian calendar correlation from the Dresden Codex Venus chronology / Floyd G. Lounsbury
- A solution for the number 1.5.5.0 of the Mayan Venus table / Lounsbury
- The books of Chilam Balam: astronomical content and the Paris Codex / Merideth Paxton
- Myth, math, and the problem of correlation in Mayan books / Tedlock
- Lessons of the Mayan sky: a perspective from medieval Europe / Charles O. Frake.