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Stars, minds, and fate : essays in ancient and medieval cosmology /
Published over a period of 20 years the essays collected together in this volume all relate to the lasting human preoccupation with cosmological matters and modern responses to them. The eclecticism of the typical medieval scholar might now seem astonishing, regrettable, amusing, or derisory, accord...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Ronceverte, WV :
Hambledon Press,
1989.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; Preface; List of Illustrations; 1 The Attractions of Past Science; 2 Moon and Megaliths; 3 By Direction from Above; 4 Neolithic Newtons; 5 Venus, By Jupiter!; 6 On the Trail of the Comet; 7 The Culmination of Ptolemy; 8 Astrology and the Fortunes of Churches; 9 Chronology and the Age of the World; 10 Between Experience and Experiment; 11 Opus quarundam rotarum mirabilium; 12 Monasticism and the First Mechanical Clocks; 13 Hierarchy, Creation, and II Veltro: Three Footnotes to Dante's Inferno; 14 The Astrolabe; 15 Astrolabes and the Hour-Line Ritual
- 16 Summa ratione confectum: An Astrolabe Drawn by Computer17 Eternity and Infinity in Late Medieval Thought; 18 Celestial Influence
- the Major Premiss of Astrology; 19 Intimations of Cosmic Unity? Fourteenth-Century Views on Celestial and Sub-Lunar Motion; 20 Kinematics
- More Ethereal than Elementary; 21 The Alfonsine Tables in England; 22 1348 and All That: Oxford Science and the Black Death; 23 Nicolaus Kratzer
- The King's Astronomer; 24 The Medieval Background to Copernicus; Index