Ordering the heavens : Roman astronomy and cosmology in the Carolingian renaissance / by Bruce S. Eastwood.
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.
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
©2007.
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| Series: | 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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Table of Contents:
- 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.