Subject: Re: [HM] Maya calendars
From: Barron, Alfred [PRI] (ABARRON@prius.jnj.com)
Date: Fri Feb 11 2000 - 11:42:39 EST
The subject area of Mayan calendrics has grown quite a bit in recent
years, especially with the advent of portable computing. For one, it
is now routine to visit any number of websites and translate your date
of choice into Mayan glyphs.
The best place to start is the Rabbit in Moon site at
http://www.halfmoon.org/index.html
Then link to "The Mayan Calendar & Date Calculator". This is also an
excellent gateway to countless other sites.
The span of literature is wide, though hard to locate. For elementary
school students, the "Second Voyage of the Mimi", part of the Bank
Street College of Education series is an excellent place to start.
Their supplements on Mayan mathematics, calendrics, etc. are good
reading even for the uninformed adult.
I've attached a brief part of my resource list on Mayan Mathematics for
posting. I'll send you the entire list under separate cover.
Al Barron
Metuchen, NJ
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My favorite book is a Dover edition:
> An Introduction to the Study of the Mayan Hieroglyphics, Sylvanus
> Griswold Morley; Bulletin 57 of the Bureau of American Ethnology,
> Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D. C.: U. S. Government Printing
> Office, 1915). In current reprint by Dover.
>
> "Maya Numeration, Computation, and Calendrical Astronomy''
> by Floyd G. Lounsbury, in Dictionary of Scientific Biography
> (DSB) Vol. 15, Supplement I (1978) edited by Charles Coulston
> Gillespie. (New York: Scribner's, 1978) pp. 759-818.
>
> Ivan Van Laningham's pages have an enormous amount of material;
> for start, his Mayan Calendar Reference Page is:
> http://www.pauahtun.org,
>
> Michael P. Closs (Editor)
> Native American Mathematics
> Paperback (March 1996)
> Univ of Texas Pr; ISBN:0292711859
> Title : The Sky in Mayan literature / ed. Anthony F. Aveni
> Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1992
> Description: x, 297p : facsims ; 24cm
> ISBN: 0195068440
Aveni also has "Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico"
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