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Darrera modificació: 2023-02-08
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Dunn, Richard - Ackermann, Silke - Strano, Giorgio (eds.), Heaven and Earth United: Instruments in Astrological Contexts, Leiden - Boston, Brill (Scientific Instruments and Collections, 6), 2018, xiv + 286 pp.
- Resum
- Historically, the idea that the stars and planets influence the Earth and its inhabitants has proved powerful in almost every culture, offering an important context for the use of mathematical and astronomical instruments. In the past, however, historians of astronomy have paid relatively little attention to astrology and other “non-scientific” topics, while historians of astrology have tended to concentrate on the analysis of texts rather than surviving artefacts, scientific instruments in particular. Heaven and Earth United is an attempt to redress the balance through an exploration of the astrological contexts in which instruments once found a place.
Contents:
* Introduction / Richard Dunn, Silke Ackermann, & Giorgio Strano · 1–3
* Chapter 1. Using Astrolabes for Astrological Purposes: The Earliest Evidence Revisited / Petra G. Schmidl · 4–23
* Chapter 2. What's on the Back of an Astrolabe? Astrolabes as Supports for Planetary Calculators / Seb Falk · 24–41
* Chapter 3. Rodríguez Arribas (2018), "Medical and astrological plates ..." · 42–60
* Chapter 4. “Preciseness and Pleasure”: The Astrological Diptychs of Thomas Hood / Stephen Johnston · 61–85
* Chapter 5. Displaying Astrological Knowledge through Tabulation: Some Notes Pertaining to Particular Arrangement on Instruments / Günther Oestmann · 86–103
* Chapter 6. Astrological Aspectaria on Early Modern Instruments / Louise E. Devoy · 104–132
* Chapter 7. Italian Astronomical Clocks as Public Astrological Machines / Marisa Addomine · 133–152
* Chapter 8. Astrological Time in Public Space: The Görlitz Arachne (1550) and Planetary Hours / Richard L. Kremer · 153–179
* Chapter 9. The Heavens at the Medici Court: Antonio Santucci's Cosmological Models / Giorgio Strano · 180–209
* Chapter 10. Were Globes Used in the Practice of Early Modern Astrology? / Jim Bennett & Sylvia Sumira · 210–229
* Chapter 11. Instruments and the Astrologer's Image / Richard Dunn · 230–252
* Chapter 12. Defining Scientific Instruments in Astrological Practice: A Response / Marvin Bolt · 253–262
* Glossary
* Index
- Matèries
- Astronomia i astrologia
Tècniques
- Notes
- Informació de l'editor
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