North European cultures showed astronomical interest in early history.
Sources
- History of astronomy (en.wikipedia.org)
- https://www.learnreligions.com/what-are-stone-circles-2562648 (learnreligions.com)
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/1011.5186 (arxiv.org)
- https://www.worldhistory.org/article/235/the-nebra-sky-disk---ancient-map-of-the-stars/ (worldhistory.org)
- https://www.britannica.com/science/astronomy/History-of-astronomy (britannica.com)
- https://pages.uoregon.edu/jschombe/ast121/lectures/lec02.html (pages.uoregon.edu)
More in History
- Early aerial photographic reconnaissance in World War I relied on an aircrew member, usually the observer, to operate heavy, awkward hand-held cameras.
- More than a dozen fragments of a rare knotted silk-and-wool carpet recovered from the Burgzand Noord 17 wreck are believed to originate from present-day Pakistan, possibly Lahore, based on their knotting style and patterns.
- The Antikythera Mechanism functioned as a computer that tracked dates according to multiple calendars, lunar movements, upcoming solar and lunar eclipses, and events such as the Olympics.
- Radiocarbon dating of charcoal and shells found in layers associated with the burial indicates it is 29,000 years old.
- General Kuldip Singh Brar was the Indian general in charge of the 1984 storming of the Golden Temple.
- The declassified CORONA satellite photographs were to be transferred to the National Archives, with a copy sent to the U.S. Geological Survey for scientific and environmental uses.