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THE third of the series of articles on early-astronomy appearing in Sky and Telescope, published in the February issue, deals with the Polynesians (see also Nature, April 15, p. 459). In this article it is shown that, contrary to earlier views, these people had an intimate knowledge of the constellations and hundreds of stars. They studied the motions of the planets and the phases of the moon, which were used to indicate lapses of time, and they possessed an extraordinary aptitude for making meteorological forecasts.
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Early Astronomy. Nature 154, 33 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154033a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/154033a0