Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
May 1974
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1974rspta.276..133l&link_type=abstract
Philosophical Transactions for the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Volume 276, Issue 1257
Mathematics
Logic
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Scientific paper
In Polynesia and Micronesia, where concepts are virtually identical, astronomy and navigation form one inseparable science. Sky `domes', stellar zones, the seasons, yam growth and the Pleiades, as well as time spans of settlement, are mentioned in the paper, and attention is drawn to apparent maritime technological parallels elsewhere. An explanation is advanced to account for survivals into the ethnographic present, vide the author's 1700 miles as navigators' apprentice, observations from a Sun-oriented trilithon and a stone instructional device, hitherto unrecorded, that is still in use. Solar observational platforms, navigational sighting stones and astro-navigation are touched upon. Pan-Pacific beliefs in stellar control of weather, astronomical lore inappropriate to its present location and the excellence of astro-navigation lead to speculation on possible one-time widespread diffusion through the neolithic world of related astronomical concepts.
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