Transcriber's Notes
Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variationsin hyphenation and accents have been standardised but all otherspelling and punctuation remains unchanged.
Several tables have been rearranged to improve clarity and constrainwidth. In particular the table of star signs on p 401 was printedhorizontally with vertical names and has been rotated. The reference to'the upper list' has been changed to 'the left hand list'.
The names Shesu-Hor and Hor-shesu are used, apparently, interchangeablyand have not been rationalised.
The first two errata have been implemented, the third is erroneous.
THE DAWN OF ASTRONOMY
(From a Photograph by the Author.)
THE
DAWN OF ASTRONOMY
A STUDY OF
THE TEMPLE-WORSHIP AND MYTHOLOGY
OF THE
ANCIENT EGYPTIANS.
BY
J. NORMAN LOCKYER
Fellow of the Royal Society; Correspondent of the Institute of France, the Society for the Promotion
of National Industry of France, the Royal Academy of Science, Göttingen, La Società degli
Spettroscopisti Italiani, the Royal Academy of Palermo,
Natural History Society of Genera, the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia,
and the Royal Medical Society of Brussels;
Member of the Royal Academy of Lincei, Rome, and the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia;
Honorary Member of the Academy of Natural Science of Catania, Literary and Philosophical
Society of Manchester, Philosophical Society of York, and Lehigh University;
Member of the Committee on Solar Physics, and Professor of Astronomical Physics in
the Royal College of Science
CASSELL and COMPANY Limited
LONDON PARIS & MELBOURNE
1894
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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PREFACE.
The enormous advance which has been recently made inour astronomical knowledge, and in our power of investigatingthe various bodies which people space, is to a very greatextent due to the introduction of methods of work and ideasfrom other branches of science.
Much of the recent progress has been, we may indeedsay, entirely dependent upon the introduction of the methodsof inquiry to which I refer. While this is generally recognised,it is often forgotten that a knowledge of even elementaryastronomy may be of very great assistance to students ofother branches of science; in other words, that astronomyis well able to pay her debt. Amongst those branchesis obviously that which deals with man's first attempts tograsp the meaning and phenomena of the universe in whichhe found himself before any scientific methods were availab