An Ancient Mayan Copernicus
Tuesday, August 16, 2016 - 11:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
For more than 120 years the Venus Table of the Dresden Codex — an ancient Mayan book containing astronomical data — has been of great interest to scholars around the world. The accuracy of its observations, especially the calculation of a kind of ‘leap year’ in the Mayan Calendar, was deemed an impressive curiosity used […]