The privilege of the "generalist", the "great touches everything", the precursor that was and still is, strongly criticized and rejected by scientific circles. This book is disturbing because it upsets all the fundamentals of the gravitation of the celestial bodies. It is exciting because it relies on a human scale of perception by the various ancient peoples of cosmic events they had witnessed. Each of the following vertices describing their religious beliefs. I was already owner of a 1967 edition The absence of rejection, end of the book the sources cited is a big plus. I cons by the feeling that the information is reduced?