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Title: | STARing the sky in the face: Recognizing the constellations in a sky which does not have any | Authors: | ADAMO, ANGELO | Issue Date: | 2017 | Volume: | The Light, The Stones and The Sacred | Editors: | Orlando, Andrea | Series: | ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE PROCEEDINGS | Number: | 48 | First Page: | 221 | Abstract: | The analysis described here attempts to estimate the range within which we use our tendency to see a familiar shape in a disordered pattern (Pareidolia). The study starts with the proof that the stars visible to the naked eye are arranged following a Poisson distribution, a concept that I use to understand why, in the works of several artists, the stars appear so clustered that they form an excess in the number of possible constellations. This analysis should be considered only preliminary and will be completed soon by further investigation which I describe at the end of this paper. | Conference Name: | XVth Italian Society of Archaeoastronomy Congress | Conference Place: | Catania | Conference Date: | 11-12 Settembre 2015 | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/34490 | URL: | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-54487-8_14 https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85020460299 |
ISSN: | 1570-6591 | ISBN: | 9783319544861 | DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-54487-8_14 | Fulltext: | open |
Appears in Collections: | 3.01 Contributi in Atti di convegno |
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