Newly found Mayan records of astronomical phenomena in Dresden Codex

IF 0.8 4区 物理与天体物理 Q4 ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
J. Vondrák, V. Böhm, B. Böhm
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The rich culture of old Maya gave birth to a very complicated and complex calendar; they also recorded important historical events and many significant astronomical phenomena. The main source of information is represented by Dresden Codex (DC), one of the four preserved Mayan hieroglyphic literal legacies. DC roughly covers the interval between 280 and 1325 AD. The old problem of precise Mayan dating with respect to our calendar is traditionally called correlation; it expresses the difference in days between the Long Count of the Mayan calendar and the Julian Date, used in presentday astronomy. There exist more than fifty published correlations that differ one from the other by as much as several centuries. Historians mostly accept the so called Goodman-Mart?nez-Thompson (GMT) value of 584 283 days, which is based mostly on historical events extracted from the sources of a postclassical period of Mayan history. On the contrary, brothers B?hm used precisely dated astronomical data from classical period to derive the B?hm correlation (BB) of 622 261 days. Unlike the GMT correlation it is in excellent agreement with the astronomical phenomena recorded in DC. Since then we published several papers supporting the validity of BB correlation and its advantage over GMT in the classical period of Mayan history. To this end, we used more records of astronomical phenomena discovered in DC. This study describes six records of planetary conjunctions that we found recently on p. 37 of DC that concern planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. All of these records coincide with the real occurrences of these phenomena within several days, if BB correlation is applied.
德累斯顿手抄本中新发现的玛雅天文现象记录
古老玛雅丰富的文化产生了非常复杂的历法;他们还记录了重要的历史事件和许多重要的天文现象。信息的主要来源是德累斯顿抄本(DC),这是四个保存完好的玛雅象形文字遗产之一。DC大致涵盖了公元280年到1325年之间的时间间隔。根据我们的历法精确测定玛雅人的年代的老问题传统上被称为相关性;它表示了玛雅历法的长历法和现代天文学中使用的儒略历之间的天数差异。有超过50种已发表的相关性,它们之间的差异可达几个世纪之久。历史学家大多接受所谓的Goodman-Mart?nez-Thompson(格林尼治标准时间)的值为584 283天,这主要是基于从玛雅历史的后古典时期的资料中提取的历史事件。相反,B兄弟?他利用古典时期精确的天文数据推导出了B?hm相关性(BB)为622 261天。与格林尼治标准时间的相关性不同,它与DC记录的天文现象非常吻合。从那时起,我们发表了几篇论文,支持BB相关性的有效性,以及它在玛雅历史的古典时期相对于GMT的优势。为此,我们使用了更多在华盛顿发现的天文现象的记录。这项研究描述了我们最近在《华盛顿邮报》第37页发现的关于水星、金星、火星、木星和土星的六个行星连接的记录。如果应用BB相关性,所有这些记录都与这些现象在几天内的实际发生一致。
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Serbian Astronomical Journal
Serbian Astronomical Journal ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS-
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1.00
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0.00%
发文量
6
审稿时长
12 weeks
期刊介绍: Serbian Astronomical Journal publishes original observations and researches in all branches of astronomy. The journal publishes: Invited Reviews - review article on some up-to-date topic in astronomy, astrophysics and related fields (written upon invitation only), Original Scientific Papers - article in which are presented previously unpublished author''s own scientific results, Preliminary Reports - original scientific paper, but shorter in length and of preliminary nature, Professional Papers - articles offering experience useful for the improvement of professional practice i.e. article describing methods and techniques, software, presenting observational data, etc. In some cases the journal may publish other contributions, such as In Memoriam notes, Obituaries, Book Reviews, as well as Editorials, Addenda, Errata, Corrigenda, Retraction notes, etc.
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