Did Old Maya Observe Mercury?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0332253" target="_blank" >http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0332253</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/SAJ211222002V" target="_blank" >10.2298/SAJ211222002V</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Did Old Maya Observe Mercury?

Original language description

It is well known that the rich culture of old Maya contained, among other, also a very complicated and complex calendar, in which they recorded not only historical events, but also significant astronomical phenomena. Main source of information is the Dresden Codex, roughly covering the interval between 280 and 1325 AD. The problem of the so-called correlation between Mayan and our calendars (expressing the difference between Long Count of Mayan calendar and Julian date) is very old, there exist about fifty different solutions that mutually differ by up to hundreds of years. Out of these, historians mostly accept the so-called Goodman Martinez Thompson (GMT) value of 584 283 days, which is based almost entirely on historical events. On the contrary, we stressed very precisely dated astronomical data, demonstrated the contradictions of GMT with them, and derived the so-called Bohm correlation (BB) of 622 261 days, which is in excellent agreement with astronomical phenomena recorded in Dresden Codex. Maya researchers are mostly convinced that Maya did not pay much attention to Mercury. Here we conclude that the truth is opposite - we analyze the data in Dresden Codex and find many records corresponding to visibility of Mercury near its maximum elongations from the Sun, and also to their conjunctions.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10308 - Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Serbian Astronomical Journal

ISSN

1450-698X

e-ISSN

1820-9289

Volume of the periodical

204

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

RS - THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

65-76

UT code for WoS article

000797485700005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85131408267