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Book Antike Himmelsbilder

Download or read book Antike Himmelsbilder written by Georg Thiele and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book ANTIKE HIMMELSBILDER  MIT FORSCHUNGEN ZU HIPPARCHOS  ARATOS

Download or read book ANTIKE HIMMELSBILDER MIT FORSCHUNGEN ZU HIPPARCHOS ARATOS written by GEORG FRIEDRICH THIELE and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Antike Himmelsbilder

    Book Details:
  • Author : Georg Thiele
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Antike Himmelsbilder written by Georg Thiele and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Antike Himmelsbilder  mit Forschungen zu Hipparchos  Aratos und seinen Fortsetzern und Beitr  gen zur Kunstgeschichte des Sternhimmels

Download or read book Antike Himmelsbilder mit Forschungen zu Hipparchos Aratos und seinen Fortsetzern und Beitr gen zur Kunstgeschichte des Sternhimmels written by Georg Thiele and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betrifft die Handschrift Cod. 88 der Burgerbibliothek Bern (S. 83-84).

Book Introduction to the History of Science

Download or read book Introduction to the History of Science written by George Sarton and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Introduction to the History of Science

Download or read book Introduction to the History of Science written by George Sarton and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 1. From Homer to Omar Khayyam.--v. 2. From Rabbi Ben Ezra to Roger Bacon. 2 v.--v. 3. Science and learning in the fourteenth century. 2. v.

Book Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts

Download or read book Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts written by Christopher de Hamel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary and beautifully illustrated exploration of the medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from one of the world's leading experts. Winner of The Wolfson History Prize and The Duff Cooper Prize. A San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Book Gift Guide Pick! Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts is a captivating examination of twelve illuminated manuscripts from the medieval period. Noted authority Christopher de Hamel invites the reader into intimate conversations with these texts to explore what they tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history - and about the modern world, too. In so doing, de Hamel introduces us to kings, queens, saints, scribes, artists, librarians, thieves, dealers, and collectors. He traces the elaborate journeys that these exceptionally precious artifacts have made through time and shows us how they have been copied, how they have been embroiled in politics, how they have been regarded as objects of supreme beauty and as symbols of national identity, and who has owned them or lusted after them (and how we can tell). From the earliest book in medieval England to the incomparable Book of Kells to the oldest manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, these encounters tell a narrative of intellectual culture and art over the course of a millennium. Two of the manuscripts visited are now in libraries of North America, the Morgan Library in New York and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Part travel book, part detective story, part conversation with the reader, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts allows us to experience some of the greatest works of art in our culture to give us a different perspective on history and on how we come by knowledge.

Book A Saving Science

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  • Author : Eric M. Ramírez-Weaver
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2017-02-24
  • ISBN : 0271078278
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book A Saving Science written by Eric M. Ramírez-Weaver and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Saving Science, Eric Ramírez-Weaver explores the significance of early medieval astronomy in the Frankish empire, using as his lens an astronomical masterpiece, the deluxe manuscript of the Handbook of 809, painted in roughly 830 for Bishop Drogo of Metz, one of Charlemagne’s sons. Created in an age in which careful study of the heavens served a liturgical purpose—to reckon Christian feast days and seasons accurately and thus reflect a “heavenly” order—the diagrams of celestial bodies in the Handbook of 809 are extraordinary signifiers of the intersection of Christian art and classical astronomy. Ramírez-Weaver shows how, by studying this lavishly painted and carefully executed manuscript, we gain a unique understanding of early medieval astronomy and its cultural significance. In a time when the Frankish church sought to renew society through education, the Handbook of 809 presented a model in which study aided the spiritual reform of the cleric’s soul, and, by extension, enabled the spiritual care of his community. An exciting new interpretation of Frankish painting, A Saving Science shows that constellations in books such as Drogo’s were not simple copies for posterity’s sake, but functional tools in the service of the rejuvenation of a creative Carolingian culture.

Book The Revival of Planetary Astronomy in Carolingian and Post Carolingian Europe

Download or read book The Revival of Planetary Astronomy in Carolingian and Post Carolingian Europe written by Bruce S. Eastwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002: Before the introduction of Greco-Arabic mathematical astronomy in the 12th century, what astronomy was there in the medieval West? While we know of developments in computus, which calculated with solar and lunar cycles to create Christian calendars, and in monastic time-telling by the stars, was anything known of the five planets? Using glosses, commentaries, and diagrams to the early manuscripts of four classical Latin authors - Pliny, Macrobius, Martianus Capella, and Calcidius - Bruce Eastwood provides evidence for the extensive development of the sixth liberal art, astronomy, from the time of Charlemagne forward, with a particular focus on the diagrams used and invented by Carolingian and later scholars. Learning to understand the motions of planets in terms of spatial, or geometrical, arrangement, they mined these Roman writings for astronomical and cosmological doctrines, in the process not only absorbing but also creating models of planetary motions. What they accomplished over three centuries was to establish a basic set of models that showed the reasoned order of the planets in the heavens.

Book The Survival of the Pagan Gods

Download or read book The Survival of the Pagan Gods written by Jean Seznec and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gods of Olympus died with the advent of Christianity--or so we have been taught to believe. But how are we to account for their tremendous popularity during the Renaissance? This illustrated book, now reprinted in a new, larger paperback format, offers the general reader first a discussion of mythology in late antiquity and the Middle Ages, and then a multifaceted look at the far-reaching role played by mythology in Renaissance intellectual and emotional life.

Book Sic Itur Ad Astra

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  • Author : Paul Kunitzsch
  • Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9783447042901
  • Pages : 620 pages

Download or read book Sic Itur Ad Astra written by Paul Kunitzsch and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2000 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Festschrift vereinigt 29 Beitrage, die folgende Sachgebiete betreffen: arabische und mittelalterlich-europaische Mathematik, Uberlieferungsgeschichte der indisch-arabischen Ziffern, die arabisch-islamische Astronomie, die volkstumliche arabische Himmelskunde, das Astrolab und seine Nomenklatur, antike und spatgriechische astronome Traditionen, weitere Fragen bzw. Texte zur Uberlieferung der Wissenschaften im griechisch-syrisch-arabisch-lateinischen Traditionsraum. Alle Arbeiten sind originell und beruhen auf einschlagigen Originalquellen. Mehrere griechische, syrische, arabische und lateinische Texte bzw. Auszuge daraus sind auch ediert. Die Sammlung enthalt somit wichtige, neue Bausteine fur unser Gesamtbild von den arabischen Wissenschaften, ihrem Nachleben in Europa und weiteren Ausstrahlungen auf die europaische Geistesgeschichte.

Book Catalogue of the London Library  St  James Square  London

Download or read book Catalogue of the London Library St James Square London written by London Library and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Atlas  or the Anxious Gay Science

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  • Author : Georges Didi-Huberman
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2018-10-11
  • ISBN : 022643947X
  • Pages : 379 pages

Download or read book Atlas or the Anxious Gay Science written by Georges Didi-Huberman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas (1925–1929) is a prescient work of mixed media assemblage, made up of hundreds of images culled from antiquity to the Renaissance and arranged into startling juxtapositions. Warburg’s allusive atlas sought to illuminate the pains of his final years, after he had suffered a breakdown and been institutionalized. It continues to influence contemporary artists today, including Gerhard Richter and Mark Dion. In this illustrated exploration of Warburg and his great work, Georges Didi-Huberman leaps from Mnemosyne Atlas into a set of musings on the relation between suffering and knowledge in Western thought, and on the creative results of associative thinking. Deploying writing that delights in dramatic jump cuts reminiscent of Warburg’s idiosyncratic juxtapositions, and drawing on a set of sources that ranges from ancient Babylon to Walter Benjamin, Atlas, or the Anxious Gay Science is rich in Didi-Huberman’s trademark combination of elan and insight.

Book Studien zur Religion und Kultur Kleinasiens  Volume 1

Download or read book Studien zur Religion und Kultur Kleinasiens Volume 1 written by Elmar Schwertheim and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cult of Mithras in the Roman Provinces of Gaul

Download or read book The Cult of Mithras in the Roman Provinces of Gaul written by Walters and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary material /Vivienne J. Walters -- THE SITES OF MITHRAIC SANCTUARIES /Vivienne J. Walters -- THE DEDICANTS OF MITHRAIC MONUMENTS /Vivienne J. Walters -- MITHRAIC REPRESENTATIONS ON POTTERY /Vivienne J. Walters -- MITHRAS AND THE GODS OF GAUL /Vivienne J. Walters -- MITHRAIC INSCRIPTIONS AND MONUMENTS /Vivienne J. Walters -- REJECTED MONUMENTS /Vivienne J. Walters -- MITHRAIC REPRESENTATIONS ON POTTERY /Vivienne J. Walters -- ADDENDUM /Vivienne J. Walters -- INDEXES /Vivienne J. Walters -- LIST OF PLATES /Vivienne J. Walters -- PLATES I-XL /Vivienne J. Walters.

Book Manilius and His Intellectual Background

Download or read book Manilius and His Intellectual Background written by Katharina Volk and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2009-02-12 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first English-language monograph on Marcus Manilius, a Roman poet of the first century AD, whose Astronomica is our earliest extant comprehensive treatment of astrology. Katharina Volk brings Manilius and his world alive for modern readers by exploring the manifold intellectual traditions that have gone into shaping the Astronomica: ancient astronomy and cosmology, the history and practice of astrology, the historical and political situation at the poem's composition, the poetic and generic conventions that inform it, and the philosophical underpinnings of Manilius' world-view. What emerges is a panoroma of the cultural imagination of the Early Empire, a fascinating picture of the ways in which educated Greeks and Romans were accustomed to think and speak about the cosmos and man's place in it.

Book A List of Books on the History of Science  Supplement

Download or read book A List of Books on the History of Science Supplement written by John Crerar Library and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: