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  1. Ordering the heavens
    Roman astronomy and cosmology in the Carolingian renaissance
    Published: ©2007
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9047431073; 9789047431077
    Series: History of science and medicine library ; v. 4
    History of science and medicine library ; v. 8
    Subjects: Astronomía medieval; Cosmología medieval; SCIENCE / Astronomy; Astronomy, Medieval; Carolingians; Cosmology, Medieval; Planetary theory; Kosmologie; Sterrenkunde; Karolingische renaissance; Geschichte; Planetary theory; Astronomy, Medieval; Cosmology, Medieval; Carolingians; Astronomie; Illustration; Welt <Motiv>; Karolingische Renaissance; Rezeption
    Other subjects: Macrobius, Ambrosius Theodosius (385-430): Commentarii in Ciceronis somnium Scipionis; Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Gaius (61-114); Martianus Capella (ca. 5. Jh.): De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii; Chalcidius (ca. 400)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 452 pages)
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    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

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-446) and index

    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