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ON THE ORIENTATION OF ROMAN TOWNS IN ITALY
- G. Magli
- History
- 23 March 2007
Summary. Several Roman writers report on the existence of a town foundation ritual, inherited from the Etruscans, which allegedly included astronomical references. However, the possible existence of…
Archaeoastronomy: Introduction to the Science of Stars and Stones
- G. Magli
- Physics
- 5 November 2015
Introduction: What is Archaeoastronomy, and why studying it -- Ideas -- Astronomy and people -- Astronomy and power -- Astronomy and afterworld -- Astronomy and architecture -- Astronomy and…
Architecture, Astronomy and Sacred Landscape in Ancient Egypt
- G. Magli
- Physics
- 22 July 2013
Part I: 1. A land for eternity 2. A king who looks at the stars 3. The lords of the horizon 4. A mirage from Heliopolis 5. Sons of the Sun God 6. The lost pyramid Part II: 7. Renaissance at the…
Under Augustus sign: the role of Astronomy in the foundation of Augusta Praetoria Salassorum
- S. Bertarione, G. Magli
- History
- 28 November 2013
Augusta Praetoria Salassorum, modern Aosta, was founded around 25 BC to celebrate the victory of Augustus army on the Salassi. Aosta is a city of the founder under many respects; for instance, one of…
Regular Sources of the Kerr-Schild class for Rotating and Nonrotating Black Hole Solutions
- A. Burinskii, E. Elizalde, S. Hildebrandt, G. Magli
- Physics
- 25 September 2001
A unified approach to regular interiors of black holes with smooth matter distributions in the core region is given. The approach is based on a class of Kerr-Schild metrics representing minimal…
Relativistic elastomechanics as a lagrangian field theory
- J. Kijowski, G. Magli
- Physics
- 1 July 1992
Sirius and the project of the megalithic enclosures at Gobekli Tepe
- G. Magli
- Physics
- 31 July 2013
The megalithic enclosures of Gobekli Tepe (Urfa, Turkey) are the most ancient stonebuilt sacred structures known so far, dating back to the 10th millennium BC. The possible presence of astronomical…
Topography, astronomy and dynastic history in the alignments of the pyramid fields of the Old Kingdom
- G. Magli
- Physics
- 8 March 2009
It is known since the 19 century that in the layout of the pyramid field of the pharaohs of the 4 th Egyptian dynasty at Giza, a main axis exists. Indeed, the south-east corners of these monuments…
The Role of the Sun in the Pantheon’s Design and Meaning
Despite being one of the most recognizable buildings from ancient Rome, the Pantheon is poorly understood. While its architecture has been well studied, its function remains uncertain. This paper…
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