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For most of human history, the night sky has been the greatest show on earth. This book traces how humanity learned to work with the cycles of the sky to build flourishing economies. Beginning with earliest history, each chapter builds a picture of how cultures in different times and places laid the foundations of what today we call economic cosmology. How early humans used seasonal markers for hunting and fishing, and how more sophisticated civilisations studied cosmic dynamics to enhance their economies, trade and navigation.

Join us for a journey through time, from our Palaeolithic ancestors to the skywatching Australian aborigines and native Americans, through Mesopotamia and Europe to our own times. A story that tells of a partnership between sky and earth, between humanity and the stars.