The revival of planetary astronomy in Carolingian and post-Carolingian Europe / Bruce S. Eastwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eastwood, Bruce.

Series:

Collected studies ; CS729.

Collected studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Planetary theory--History.

Planetary theory.

Astronomy, Medieval.

History.

Physical Description:

1 volume (various paging) : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2002.

Contents:

I Astronomy in Christian Latin Europe, c.500-c.1150 (Journal for the History of Astronomy, 28. Cambridge, 1997) 235

II Plinian Astronomy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Science in the Early Roman Empire: Pliny the Elder, his Sources and Influence, ed. R. French and F. Greenaway. London, 1986) 197

III Plinian Astronomical Diagrams in the Early Middle Ages (Mathematics and its Applications to Science and Natural Philosophy in the Middle Ages, ed. E. Grant and J. E. Murdoch. New York, 1987) 141

IV Origins and Contents of the Leiden Planetary Configuration (ms. Voss. Q. 79, f. 93v): An Artistic Astronomical Schema of the Early Middle Ages (Viator, 14. Los Angeles, 1983) 1

V The Astronomy of Macrobius in Carolingian Europe: Dungal's Letter of 811 to Charles the Great (Early Medieval Europe, 3. Harlow, Essex, 1994) 117

VI The Astronomies of Pliny, Martianus Capella, and Isidore of Seville in the Carolingian World (Science in Western and Eastern Civilization in Carolingian Times, ed. P. L. Butzer and D. Lohrmann. Basel, 1993) 161

VII Astronomical Images and Planetary Theory in Carolingian Studies of Martianus Capella (Journal for the History of Astronomy, 31. Cambridge, 2000) 1

VIII Plato and Circumsolar Planetary Motion in the Middle Ages (Archives d'histoire doctrinale et litteraire du moyen age, 60. Paris, 1993) 7

IX Heraclides and Heliocentrism: Texts, Diagrams, and Interpretations (Journal for the History of Astronomy, 23. Cambridge, 1992) 233

X Calcidius's Commentary on Plato's Timaeus in Latin Astronomy of the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries (Between Demonstration and Imagination. Essays in the History of Science and Philosophy, ed. L. Nauta and A. Vanderjagt. Leiden, 1999) 171.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0860788687

OCLC:

48032660