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What is the difference between historical and archaeastronomy?

historical | archaeastronomy |

As nouns the difference between historical and archaeastronomy

is that historical is a historical romance while archaeastronomy is {{context|astronomy|archaeology|lang=en}} the historical, especially archeological, study of astronomy; the study of the astronomical systems and methods of ancient cultures often embracing the astrology and cosmology of the past.

As a adjective historical

is pertaining to the history, to what happened in the past.

historical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to the history, to what happened in the past.

    • Usage notes

    * * See the usage notes about (m) for more.

    Synonyms

    * historic

    Derived terms

    * ahistorical * art-historical

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A historical romance.
  • * 1999 , Anne K. Kaler, Rosemary E. Johnson-Kurek, Romantic Conventions , page 63:
    • However, as regular romance readers know, the romance novels that appear on the best-seller lists are not Harlequins at all, but rather historicals and contemporaries, which vary widely from the Harlequin pattern in style, plot, and character.

    archaeastronomy

    English

    (wikipedia archaeastronomy)

    Alternative forms

    * , archeastronomy, archeoastronomy

    Noun

    (-)
  • (astronomy, archaeology) The historical, especially archeological, study of astronomy; the study of the astronomical systems and methods of ancient cultures often embracing the astrology and cosmology of the past.
  • * 1979', John Howland Rowe, "Review: '''Archaeoastronomy in Meso America and Peru," ''Latin American Research Review , vol. 14, no. 2, p. 227:
    • Archaeoastronomy is an endeavor to find out something about ancient astronomy and related matters through the use of archeological data and the study of ancient texts.