[pmrid (Peter)]

I'm chasing ideas. Now that I am supposedly retired, and dangerously close to becoming an idle dilettante, I have a half-formed idea about having good look at the story of astronomy in the very beginning - at how different cultures have advanced the study of the solar system and the greater universe in different ages and places whether as a scientific inquiry or for the purpose of their religions or the like. I am building up a reading list for myself and wondered if any members had any recommendations that I could pursue.

I am not necessarily limiting my inquiry to the post-Ptolemy period of the Greeks. My reading to date suggests that there are sites scatted all over the globe that may or may not have been astronomical observatories of one sort or another significantly predating the Greeks - and there does not seem to be a heck of a lot around that deals with them comprehensively.

Peter