History of the sky. Antiquity

Camille Nicolas Flammarion is a famous French astronomer, an outstanding popularizer of this ancient science. His books are still a sample of the genre of popular science literature. The famous "history of the starry sky", written in the form of cognitive conversations, organically combines scientific thought with a fascinating narration. In the second part of this study, presented in this edition, it is described how the astronomical knowledge of humanity in the era of antiquity developed. Flammarion wrote so much about the main thing about his life: Astronomy is the basis of general education, and without this science, a person would never know what place he occupies in the universe