Revival of Planetary Astronomy in Carolingian and Post-Carolingian Europe
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Astronomical Diagrams
Astronomy
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Bede's Work
Book Computus
Book III
BPL
Calcidius's Commentary
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computus calculation
Counterclockwise
De Nuptiis
early medieval cosmology studies
Eccentric Circles
Epicyclic Models
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Fourth Excerpt
Greco-Arabic
Group Iii
IJ
Intersecting Circles
Latin
Latin astronomical diagrams
liberal arts curriculum
Martianus Capella
Martianus Capella's De Nuptiis
Mathematical
medieval scientific manuscripts
monastic timekeeping
Philippe De Thaon
Planetary Astronomy
Planetary Configuration
Planetary Latitudes
planetary motion models
PLATO
Pliny's Natural History
Pole Star
Solar Circle
Zodiacal Circle
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- ISBN 9781138731875
- Weight: 620g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 25 Nov 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This title was first published in 2002: Before the introduction of Greco-Arabic mathematical astronomy in the 12th century, what astronomy was there in the medieval West? While we know of developments in computus, which calculated with solar and lunar cycles to create Christian calendars, and in monastic time-telling by the stars, was anything known of the five planets? Using glosses, commentaries, and diagrams to the early manuscripts of four classical Latin authors - Pliny, Macrobius, Martianus Capella, and Calcidius - Bruce Eastwood provides evidence for the extensive development of the sixth liberal art, astronomy, from the time of Charlemagne forward, with a particular focus on the diagrams used and invented by Carolingian and later scholars. Learning to understand the motions of planets in terms of spatial, or geometrical, arrangement, they mined these Roman writings for astronomical and cosmological doctrines, in the process not only absorbing but also creating models of planetary motions. What they accomplished over three centuries was to establish a basic set of models that showed the reasoned order of the planets in the heavens.
