Ordering the heavens : Roman astronomy and cosmology in the Carolingian renaissance /
Based on scores of medieval manuscript texts and diagrams, this book shows how Roman sources were used in the age of Charlemagne to reintroduce and expand a qualitative picture of articulated geometrical order in the heavens.
| Основен автор: | Eastwood, Bruce. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
℗♭2007.
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| Серия: |
History of science and medicine library ;
v. 4. History of science and medicine library. Medieval and early modern science ; v. 8. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=253040 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Ordering the heavens. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction
- Macrobius's Commentary on Scipio's dream : its Carolingian uses for astronomy and cosmology
- Pliny the Elder's Natural history : encyclopedia for Carolingian astronomy and cosmology
- Martianus Capella's synopsis of astronomy in The marriage of philology and Mercury and its major Carolingian commentaries
- Using Calcidius's Commentarius in Carolingian astronomy
- Carolingian diagrams for astronomy and cosmology.