Cleomedes Lectures On Astronomy

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Cleomedes Lectures On Astronomy

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Author : Cleomedes
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2004-01-19

Cleomedes Lectures On Astronomy written by Cleomedes and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-19 with History categories.

Cleomedes, philosopher and teacher, delivered a series of lectures to his students on the subject of astronomy around AD 200. The importance accorded these lectures is not one based on merit but on uniqueness as it is rare to find an intact text from a Stoic teacher of this period.

Cleomediis De Motu Circulari Corporum Caelestium Libri

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Author : Cleomedes
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18

Cleomediis De Motu Circulari Corporum Caelestium Libri written by Cleomedes and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with categories.

Cleomedes was a Greek astronomer whose treatise on the motion of celestial bodies was widely read and influential in the ancient world. This edition, translated by Hermann Ziegler, provides a readable and engaging introduction to the ideas of Cleomedes, with valuable commentary and analysis. Whether you are a student of astronomy or simply curious about how the ancient Greeks thought about the cosmos, Cleomedis de Motu Circulari Corporum Caelestium Libri is a valuable resource. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Lectures On Astronomy

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Author : Henry Moseley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1854

Lectures On Astronomy written by Henry Moseley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1854 with categories.

Views Of The Cordilleras And Monuments Of The Indigenous Peoples Of The Americas

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Author : Alexander von Humboldt
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013-01-25

Views Of The Cordilleras And Monuments Of The Indigenous Peoples Of The Americas written by Alexander von Humboldt and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-25 with Science categories.

In 1799, Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland set out to determine whether the Orinoco River connected with the Amazon. But what started as a trip to investigate a relatively minor geographical controversy became the basis of a five-year exploration throughout South America, Mexico, and Cuba. The discoveries amassed by Humboldt and Bonpland were staggering, and much of today’s knowledge of tropical zoology, botany, geography, and geology can be traced back to Humboldt’s numerous records of these expeditions. One of these accounts, Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, firmly established Alexander von Humboldt as the founder of Mesoamerican studies. In Views of the Cordilleras—first published in French between 1810 and 1813—Humboldt weaves together magnificently engraved drawings and detailed texts to achieve multifaceted views of cultures and landscapes across the Americas. In doing so, he offers an alternative perspective on the New World, combating presumptions of its belatedness and inferiority by arguing that the “old” and the “new” world are of the same geological age. This critical edition of Views of the Cordilleras—the second volume in the Alexander von Humboldt in English series—contains a new, unabridged English translation of Humboldt’s French text, as well as annotations, a bibliography, and all sixty-nine plates from the original edition, many of them in color.

New Perspectives On Aristotle S De Caelo

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Author : Alan C. Bowen
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2009

New Perspectives On Aristotle S De Caelo written by Alan C. Bowen and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Philosophy categories.

This volume is the first collection of scholarly articles in any modern language devoted to Aristotle s "De caelo." It grew out of series of workshops held at Princeton, Cambridge, and Paris in the late 1990 s. Since Aristotle s "De caelo" had a major influence on cosmological thinking until the time of Galileo and Kepler and helped to shape the way in which Western civilization imagined its natural environment and place at the center of the universe, familiarity with the main doctrines of the "De caelo" is a prerequisite for an understanding of much of the thought and culture of antiquity and the Middle Ages.

Illustrating The Phaenomena

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Author : Elly Dekker
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013

Illustrating The Phaenomena written by Elly Dekker and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Art categories.

In this volume all extant celestial maps and globes made before 1500 are described and analysed. It also discusses the astronomical sources involved in making these artefacts in antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Islamic world and the European Renaissance before 1500.

The Orphic Astrologer Critodemus

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Author : Cristian Tolsa
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-12-04

The Orphic Astrologer Critodemus written by Cristian Tolsa and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-04 with Literary Criticism categories.

Despite the relevance of astrology in Graeco-Roman mentality, our information about the early period of Hellenistic astrology is marred by the scarcity of original sources. Personal astrology did not take off until the late Hellenistic period, due to the more substantial Hellenization of Mesopotamia facilitating the import of Babylonian theories. The most relevant doctrines, mostly surviving as references and partial paraphrases in later authors and astrological miscellanies, are attached to the pseudepigraphical names of Nechepsos and Petosiris, which have been traced back to the Egyptian Demotic tradition. Critodemus, who is classified as a later author even if Firmicus Maternus invokes him as a founding authority, appears as a parallel to these Egyptian transmitters, in that he presented astrology, like them, in the form of a didactic poem, but employing an Orphic frame instead of Egyptian. By collecting, contextualizing, and analyzing all the evidence on this author, this book establishes a relatively early chronology for Critodemus and aims both at distinguishing his original contributions and at explaining the various forms in which his text was used and modified in the later tradition.

A Guide To The Geography Of Pliny The Elder

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Author : Duane W. Roller
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-07-28

A Guide To The Geography Of Pliny The Elder written by Duane W. Roller and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-28 with History categories.

This is the first thorough English commentary on the geographical books of Pliny the Elder, written in the AD 70s. Pliny's account is the longest in Latin, and represents the geographical knowledge of that era, when the Roman Empire was the dominant force in the Mediterranean world. The work serves both cultural and ideological functions: much of it is topographical, but it also demonstrates the political need to express a geographical basis for the importance of the Roman state. In five books, Pliny covers the entire world as it was known in his era and includes some of the first information on the extremities of the inhabited region, including Scandinavia and the Baltic, eastern Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. The commentary provides a detailed analysis of all the points Pliny raises: his sources, toponyms, and understanding of the place of the earth in the cosmos.

Time In Antiquity

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Author : Robert Hannah
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2008-11-26

Time In Antiquity written by Robert Hannah and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-26 with History categories.

Time in Antiquity explores the different perceptions of time from Classical antiquity, principally through the technology designed to measure, mark or tell time. The material discussed ranges from the sixth century BC in archaic Greece to the 3rd century AD in the Roman Empire, and offers fascinating insights into ordinary people’s perceptions of time and time-keeping instruments.

Neo Latin Literature And Literary Culture In Early Modern Scotland

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Author : Steven J. Reid
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-09-19

Neo Latin Literature And Literary Culture In Early Modern Scotland written by Steven J. Reid and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-19 with History categories.

Neo-Latin Literature and Literary Culture in Early Modern Scotland is the first detailed examination of the vibrant culture of literature written by Scots in Latin in the late-sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The essays in this collection draw on several recent ground-breaking research projects to examine a wide variety of aspects of Scottish Latin culture, including: Scottish participation in Latinate humanist circles across Europe, particularly in France and England; scientific, philosophical and didactic Latin culture in Scotland prior to the Scientific Revolution; and the reception of classical literature in Scotland, particularly Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. It also features in-depth examinations and translated excerpts of several key works, including the Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum (Amsterdam, 1637) and The Muses' Welcome (Edinburgh, 1618). Contributors are: Alexander Broadie, Robert Cummings, Alexander Farquhar, Roger Green, L.B.T. Houghton, Miles Kerr-Peterson, Ralph McLean, David McOmish, Gesine Manuwald, William Poole, and Steven J. Reid.