Ordering the Heavens Roman Astronomy and Cosmology in the Carolingian Renaissance 1st Edition by Bruce Eastwood ISBN 9004161864 9789004161863
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ISBN 10: 9004161864
ISBN 13: 9789004161863
Author: Bruce Eastwood
The astronomy of the Carolingian era has commonly been represented as concerned exclusively with “computus,” the science of calendar construction as well as arithmetical calculation in general. This volume shows the error of that portrayal by exploring the study and teaching of four Roman texts on astronomy and cosmology in the Carolingian world and the diagrams connected to those texts. As each of these works came into use over the Carolingian era, its contributions merged into a progressively more ordered picture of the heavens. Both eccentrics and epicycles appeared by the 840s. These techniques were subsequently introduced clearly and qualitatively to complete the Carolingian enterprise. The primary tool for understanding this effort is the analysis of their diagrams.” Medieval and Early Modern Science,”
Table of contents:
Chapter 1: Macrobius’s Commentary on Scipio’s Dream: Its Carolingian Uses for Astronomy and Cosmology
Chapter 2: Pliny the Elder’s Natural History: Encyclopedia for Carolingian Astronomy and Cosmology
Chapter 3: Martianus Capella’s Synopsis of Astronomy in The Marriage of Philology and Mercury and Its Major Carolingian Commentaries
Chapter 4: Using Calcidius’s Commentarius in Carolingian Astronomy
Chapter 5: Carolingian Diagrams for Astronomy and Cosmology
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