Illustrating The Phaenomena
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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.
Astronomical Knowledge Transmission Through Illustrated Aratea Manuscripts
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Author : Marion Dolan
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-08-22
Astronomical Knowledge Transmission Through Illustrated Aratea Manuscripts written by Marion Dolan and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-22 with Science categories.
This carefully researched monograph is a historical investigation of the illustrated Aratea astronomical manuscript and its many interpretations over the centuries. Aratus' 270 B.C.E. Greek poem describing the constellations and astrological phenomena was translated and copied over 800 years into illuminated manuscripts that preserved and illustrated these ancient stories about the constellations. The Aratea survives in its entirety due to multiple translations from Greek to Latin and even to Arabic, with many illuminated versions being commissioned over the ages. The survey encompasses four interrelated disciplines: history of literature, history of myth, history of science, and history of art. Aratea manuscripts by their nature are a meeting place of these distinct branches, and the culling of information from historical literature and from the manuscripts themselves focuses on a wider, holistic view; a narrow approach could not provide a proper prospective. What is most essential to know about this work is that because of its successive incarnations it has survived and been reinterpreted through the centuries, which speaks to its importance in all of these disciplines. This book brings a better understanding of the history, changes and transmission of the original astronomical Phaenomena poem. Historians, art historians, astronomy lovers, and historians of astronomy will learn more specialized details concerning the Aratea and how the tradition survived from the Middle Ages. It is a credit to the poetry of Aratus and the later interpreters of the text that its pagan aspects were not edited nor removed, but respected and maintained in the exact same form despite the fact that all sixty Aratea manuscripts mentioned in this study were produced under the rule of Christianity.
A Companion To Byzantine Illustrated Manuscripts
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-06-06
A Companion To Byzantine Illustrated Manuscripts written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-06 with History categories.
This volume offers an overview of Byzantine manuscript illustration, a central branch of Byzantine art and culture. Just like written texts, illustrations bear witness to Byzantine material culture, imperial ideology and religious beliefs, as well as to the development and spread of Byzantine art. In this sense illustrated books reflect the society that produced and used them. Being portable, they could serve as diplomatic gifts or could be acquired by foreigners. In such cases they became “emissaries” of Byzantine art and culture in Western Europe and the Arabic world. The volume provides for the first time a comprehensive overview of the material, divided by text categories, including both secular and religious manuscripts, and analyses which texts were illustrated in Byzantium, and how. Contributors are Justine M. Andrews, Leslie Brubaker, Annemarie W. Carr, Elina Dobrynina, Maria Evangelatou, Maria Laura Tomea Gavazzoli, Markos Giannoulis, Cecily Hennessy, Ioli Kalavrezou, Maja Kominko, Sofia Kotzabassi, Stavros Lazaris, Kallirroe Linardou, Vasileios Marinis, Kathleen Maxwell, Georgi R. Parpulov, Nancy P. Ševčenko, Jean-Michel Spieser, Mika Takiguchi, Courtney Tomaselli, Marina Toumpouri, Nicolette S. Trahoulia, Vasiliki Tsamakda, and Elisabeth Yota.
The Spatial Reformation
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Author : Michael J. Sauter
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2019-01-11
The Spatial Reformation written by Michael J. Sauter and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-11 with Science categories.
In The Spatial Reformation, Michael J. Sauter offers a sweeping history of the way Europeans conceived of three-dimensional space, including the relationship between Earth and the heavens, between 1350 and 1850. He argues that this "spatial reformation" provoked a reorganization of knowledge in the West that was arguably as important as the religious Reformation. Notably, it had its own sacred text, which proved as central and was as ubiquitously embraced: Euclid's Elements. Aside from the Bible, no other work was so frequently reproduced in the early modern era. According to Sauter, its penetration and suffusion throughout European thought and experience call for a deliberate reconsideration not only of what constitutes the intellectual foundation of the early modern era but also of its temporal range. The Spatial Reformation contends that space is a human construct: that is, it is a concept that arises from the human imagination and gets expressed physically in texts and material objects. Sauter begins his examination by demonstrating how Euclidean geometry, when it was applied fully to the cosmos, estranged God from man, enabling the breakthrough to heliocentrism and, by extension, the discovery of the New World. Subsequent chapters provide detailed analyses of the construction of celestial and terrestrial globes, Albrecht Dürer's engraving Melencolia, the secularization of the natural history of the earth and man, and Hobbes's rejection of Euclid's sense of space and its effect on his political theory. Sauter's exploration culminates in the formation of a new anthropology in the eighteenth century that situated humanity in reference to spaces and places that human eyes had not actually seen. The Spatial Reformation illustrates how these disparate advancements can be viewed as resulting expressly from early modernity's embrace of Euclidean geometry.
Delphi Complete Works Of John Stuart Mill Illustrated
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Author : John Stuart Mill
language : en
Publisher: Delphi Classics
Release Date : 2019-09-05
Delphi Complete Works Of John Stuart Mill Illustrated written by John Stuart Mill and has been published by Delphi Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-05 with Philosophy categories.
John Stuart Mill was an English philosopher and economist, who was also noted as a leading exponent of Utilitarianism. A prominent publicist of the reforming age of the nineteenth century, Mill is regarded today as one of the most influential thinkers of classical liberalism. He contributed widely to social theory, political theory and political economy. His famous conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state and social control. Mill's sympathetic attitude to contemporary socialism won him the esteem of the working classes as one of their intellectual champions. This comprehensive eBook presents Mill’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare essays, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Mill’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major works * All of the treatises and essays, with individual contents tables * Features rare essays appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Includes Mill’s autobiography * Special criticism section, with essays evaluating Mill’s contribution to philosophy * Features three biographies – discover Mill’s fascinating life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Books A System of Logic Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy The Principles of Political Economy Dissertations and Discussions A Few Words on Non-Intervention On Liberty Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform Considerations on Representative Government Utilitarianism An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy Auguste Comte and Positivism Inaugural Address at St. Andrews concerning the Value of Culture England and Ireland The Subjection of Women Three Essays on Religion Socialism Miscellaneous Essays The Criticism Analysis of Mr. Mill’s System of Logic by W. Stebbing John Stuart Mill by Edwin Lawrence Godkin John Stuart Mill, Teacher of the People by George Jacob Holyoake The Death of Mr. Mill by John Morley Mr. Mill’s Autobiography by John Morley Review of the Work of Mr John Stuart Mill Entitled, ‘Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy’ by George Grote The Autobiography Autobiography The Biographies John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works by H. R. Fox Bourne John Stuart Mill by Leslie Stephen John Stuart Mill by William Minto Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks
The Elements In The Medieval World
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2024-11-18
The Elements In The Medieval World written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-18 with History categories.
The fourteen chapters and poem of this volume reflect the centrality of the element Earth in medieval thought and life, a centrality inherited from classical antiquity, and fundamental too in Judaeo-Christian and Islamic traditions. The chapters also reflect the multifarious nature of the ways that Earth was experienced and understood in the Middle Ages. Contributors are Sophie E.D. Abrahams, Daniel Anlezark, Marilina Cesario, Catherine Clarke, James Davis, Stephen J. Davis, Virginia Iommi Echeverría, Andrew Fear, Danielle B. Joyner, Hugh Magennis, Francesco Marzella, Tom C.B. McLeish, Patrick Naeve, Bernard O’Donoghue, Sinéad O’Sullivan, Alexandra Paddock, Elisa Ramazzina, Hannah E. Smithson, Sigbjørn O. Sønnesyn, Sinéad O’Sullivan, and Margaret Tedford.
Cartography Between Christian Europe And The Arabic Islamic World 1100 1500
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-06-17
Cartography Between Christian Europe And The Arabic Islamic World 1100 1500 written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-17 with History categories.
Medieval Christian European and Arabic-Islamic cultures are both notable for the wealth and diversity of their geographical literature, yet to date there has been relatively little attempt to compare medieval Christian and Islamic mapping traditions in a detailed manner. Cartography between Christian Europe and the Arabic-Islamic World offers a timely assessment of the level of interaction between the two traditions across a range of map genres, including world and regional maps, maps of the seven climes, and celestial cartography. Through a mixture of synthesis and case study, the volume makes the case for significant but limited cultural transfer. Contributors are: Elly Dekker; Jean-Charles Ducène; Alfred Hiatt; Yossef Rapoport; Stefan Schröder; Emmanuelle Vagnon.
Cosmos And Community In Early Medieval Art
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Author : Benjamin Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2017-02-28
Cosmos And Community In Early Medieval Art written by Benjamin Anderson and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-28 with Art categories.
In the rapidly changing world of the early Middle Ages, depictions of the cosmos represented a consistent point of reference across the three dominant states--the Frankish, Byzantine, and Islamic Empires. As these empires diverged from their Greco-Roman roots between 700 and 1000 A.D. and established distinctive medieval artistic traditions, cosmic imagery created a web of visual continuity, though local meanings of these images varied greatly. Benjamin Anderson uses thrones, tables, mantles, frescoes, and manuscripts to show how cosmological motifs informed relationships between individuals, especially the ruling elite, and communities, demonstrating how domestic and global politics informed the production and reception of these depictions. The first book to consider such imagery across the dramatically diverse cultures of Western Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic Middle East, Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art illuminates the distinctions between the cosmological art of these three cultural spheres, and reasserts the centrality of astronomical imagery to the study of art history.
A Saving Science
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Author : Eric M. Ramírez-Weaver
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2017-02-24
A Saving Science written by Eric M. Ramírez-Weaver and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-24 with Art categories.
In A Saving Science, Eric Ramírez-Weaver explores the significance of early medieval astronomy in the Frankish empire, using as his lens an astronomical masterpiece, the deluxe manuscript of the Handbook of 809, painted in roughly 830 for Bishop Drogo of Metz, one of Charlemagne’s sons. Created in an age in which careful study of the heavens served a liturgical purpose—to reckon Christian feast days and seasons accurately and thus reflect a “heavenly” order—the diagrams of celestial bodies in the Handbook of 809 are extraordinary signifiers of the intersection of Christian art and classical astronomy. Ramírez-Weaver shows how, by studying this lavishly painted and carefully executed manuscript, we gain a unique understanding of early medieval astronomy and its cultural significance. In a time when the Frankish church sought to renew society through education, the Handbook of 809 presented a model in which study aided the spiritual reform of the cleric’s soul, and, by extension, enabled the spiritual care of his community. An exciting new interpretation of Frankish painting, A Saving Science shows that constellations in books such as Drogo’s were not simple copies for posterity’s sake, but functional tools in the service of the rejuvenation of a creative Carolingian culture.
Delphi Collected Works Of Thomas Hobbes Illustrated
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Author : Thomas Hobbes
language : en
Publisher: Delphi Classics
Release Date : 2019-06-24
Delphi Collected Works Of Thomas Hobbes Illustrated written by Thomas Hobbes and has been published by Delphi Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-24 with Philosophy categories.
The seventeenth century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes is best known for his political philosophy, as revealed in his magnum opus ‘Leviathan’ (1651). Hobbes regarded government primarily as a device for ensuring collective security. He argued that political authority is justified by a hypothetical social contract among the many, giving a sovereign person the responsibility for the safety and well-being of all. Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of other fields, including history, jurisprudence, geometry, the physics of gases, theology, ethics and general philosophy. However, his enduring contribution was as a political philosopher, who justified wide-ranging government powers on the basis of the self-interested consent of citizens. This comprehensive eBook presents Hobbes’ collected (almost complete) works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Hobbes’ life and works * Concise introductions to the major works * Features rare treatises appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Two texts of ‘Leviathan’: the first edition text and Molesworth’s seminal 1839 edition * Includes Hobbes’ rare poetry– available in no other collection * Features the translations, including the celebrated complete translation of Thucydides * Hobbes’ scarce autobiographical work * Features two biographies – discover Hobbes’ intriguing life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Books Elements of Law, Natural and Politic Of Liberty and Necessity Answer to Sir William Davenant’s Preface before Gondibert De Cive Leviathan De Corpore Six Lessons to the Professor of Mathematics Seven Philosophical Problems A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England An Answer to a Book Published by Dr. Bramhall, Late Bishop of Derry Three Papers Presented to the Royal Society Against Dr. Wallis Ten Dialogues of Natural Philosophy An Historical Narration concerning Hersey and the Punishment Thereof Behemoth The Translations Eight Books of the Peloponnesian War The Whole Art of Rhetoric Translation of Homer’s ‘Iliad’ Translation of Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ The Poetry De Mirabilis Pecci, Being the Wonders of the Peak in Darby-shire The Life of Mr. Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury Historia Ecclesiastica Carmine Elegiaco Concinnata The Autobiography Considerations upon the Reputation, Loyalty, Manners and Religion of Thomas Hobbes of Malmsbury The Biographies Thomas Hobbes by George Croom Robertson Thomas Hobbes by Leslie Stephen Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks