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How Albert the Great's Speculum Astronomiae Was interpreted and Used by Four Centuries of Readers : A Study in Late Medieval Medicine, Astronomy and Astrology / Scott E. Hendrix ; with a preface by Laura Ackerman Smoller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hendrix, Scott E., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Speculum astronomiae.
- Occultism and science--History.
- Occultism and science.
- Astrology--History.
- Astrology.
- Science, Medieval.
- Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280.
- Albertus.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (326 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston, New York : The Edwin Mellen Press, [2010]
- Summary:
- This study analyzes the readership of a work commonly known as a Speculum astronomiae from the time of its production in the mid-thirteenth century to the point when it lapsed from learned discourse to in the late fifteenth century.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Astrology's movement from the fringes to the center
- Chapter 1: Defending Albert's reputation?
- Chapter 2: Faith and reason in conflict?
- Chapter 3: Link between natural philosophy and metaphysics
- Chapter 4: Readers and their approach to the Speculum Astronomiae
- Chapter 5: Whether for it or against it, you can't ignore it
- Chapter 6: Death and reincarnation of an authority.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7734-2078-9
- OCLC:
- 780445290
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