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The History of Lunar Astronomy deals with all those exciting developments and advances related to the knowledge and understanding of the Moon in all its essence and nature, developments that were achieved throughout the different historical periods and that made it possible to finally reach a high degree of knowledge in the field of Lunar Astronomy. My fundamental purpose in this text is for the reader to discover and assimilate these developments. Likewise, the work aims to answer the basic question: How was it possible to achieve so much knowledge about our satellite?To achieve such objectives, I begin by exposing the way in which prehistoric societies, with their characteristic mythological mentality, always treated and understood our Moon in divine terms, as a goddess. Next, I argue about the origins of philosophy as a form of thought typical of ancient Greek society first, and then Greco-Roman, and I describe the way in which our satellite was studied and understood in rational, philosophical terms, by the people of these societies. Something very different from what happened in the characteristic societies of the medieval period, which studied astronomy with a markedly theolo

Author

García S., Dubán Horacio

Published

2024

Language

EN