| Ordering the Heavens: Roman Astronomy and Cosmology in the Carolingian Renaissance Contributor(s): Eastwood (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004161864 ISBN-13: 9789004161863 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $167.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2007 Annotation: Based on scores of medieval manuscript texts and diagrams, the book shows how Roman sources were used in the age of Charlemagne to reintroduce and expand a qualitative picture of articulated geometrical order in the heavens. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | History - History | Europe - Medieval - Science | Astronomy |
| Dewey: 520.940 |
| Series: Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.6" W x 9.6" (2.20 lbs) 456 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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, vol. 8 |