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Author Eastwood, Bruce.

Title Ordering the heavens : Roman astronomy and cosmology in the Carolingian renaissance / by Bruce S. Eastwood.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 452 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series History of science and medicine library ; v. 4
Medieval and early modern science ; v. 8
History of science and medicine library ; v. 4.
History of science and medicine library. Medieval and early modern science ; v. 8.
Contents Introduction -- Macrobius's Commentary on Scipio's dream : its Carolingian uses for astronomy and cosmology -- Pliny the Elder's Natural history : encyclopedia for Carolingian astronomy and cosmology -- Martianus Capella's synopsis of astronomy in The marriage of philology and Mercury and its major Carolingian commentaries -- Using Calcidius's Commentarius in Carolingian astronomy -- Carolingian diagrams for astronomy and cosmology.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-446) and index.
Summary Based on scores of medieval manuscript texts and diagrams, this 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Planetary theory -- History.
Planetary theory.
History.
Astronomy, Medieval -- Europe.
Astronomy, Medieval.
Europe.
Cosmology, Medieval.
Cosmology, Medieval.
Carolingians.
Carolingians.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Eastwood, Bruce. Ordering the heavens. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2007 9789004161863 9004161864 (DLC) 2007024765 (OCoLC)141384368
ISBN 9789047431077 (electronic book)
9047431073 (electronic book)
Standard No. 10.1163/ej.9789004161863.i-453