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    The Song of Urania

    The Song of Urania

    The Song of Urania

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    Length:
    41 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    A history of astronomy, from antiquity to the present.
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 41 episodes

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    Episode 41: Liu Xin's Theory of Everything

    After Wang Mang deposed the Han Dynasty and instituted his new Xin Dynasty, he needed t...

    47 minutes
    		Apr 26, 2024

    Episode 40: Emperor Wu's Woo

    We learn about the political events and omens that led to the calendar reform of 104 BC.

    55 minutes
    		Mar 29, 2024

    Episode 39: The Guest Stars

    We turn to the ways that the Chinese Emperor's astronomers predicted and interpreted ec...

    50 minutes
    		Mar 01, 2024

    Episode 38: The Organization of Heaven & Earth

    This month we turn to the astronomy of China in the early Imperial Era. We look at the ...

    43 minutes
    		Jan 29, 2024

    Episode 37: The Mandate of Heaven

    We start to explore the relationship between the heavens and the Earth in Ancient China...

    53 minutes
    		Jan 01, 2024

    Episode 36: Aryabhata & the Siddhantas

    In our final episode on ancient Indian astronomy, we tour the five astronomical Siddhan...

    48 minutes
    		Dec 01, 2023

    Episode 35: The Vedanga Jyotisha & Beyond

    We delve into the contents of the Vedanga Jyotisha, the earliest Indian text to deal ex...

    31 minutes
    		Nov 03, 2023

    Episode 34: What Happened in Harappa

    India developed one of the most advanced astronomies of any of the ancient cultures, ev...

    37 minutes
    		Sep 30, 2023

    Episode 33: How the Moon Became Blue

    We take a break from the main narrative in honor of this month's blue moon and turn to ...

    34 minutes
    		Sep 01, 2023

    Episode 32: All Along the Watchers of the Hour

    This month we tour the astronomers of ancient Egypt from the Old Kingdom to the last na...

    57 minutes
    		Aug 06, 2023