History of the sky. Ancient world

Books of Camille Flammarion (1842-1925) - French astronomer, a well-known popularizer of this science - are still a model of scientific and popular literature on astronomy. Written in the form of cognitive conversations, they are read, like an exciting novel and are designed for the widest audience. In the first part of the trilogy "The history of the sky: the ancient world is telling about how the astronomical knowledge of humanity was born, as the constellations acquaintances from childhood since childhood, which people and why is it attributed to this or that name. The following books "The History of the sky: Antiquity" and "History of the sky: Christianity" devoted to the contribution of antique and Christian civilizations into the formation of astronomical knowledge