Illustrating the Phaenomena
Celestial cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 25 October 2012
- ISBN 9780199609697
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages478 pages
- Size 254x201x29 mm
- Weight 1246 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 170 b/w illustrations, 16pp colour plates 0
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Short description:
In this book all extant celestial maps and globes made before 1500 are described and analysed in detail. It also discusses extensively the astronomical sources involved in making these artefacts in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Islamic World and the European Renaissance before 1500.
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The introduction of the moving sphere as a model for understanding the celestial phenomena caused a great breakthrough in scientific thinking about the structure of the world. It provided the momentum for making celestial globes and mapping the stars. Celestial globes were produced first by Greek astronomers, and soon became greatly appreciated in antiquity as decorative objects (3 antique globes). The design and construction of the globe varied greatly as it passed through the Arabic (10 scientific globes made before 1500) and Medieval European cultures (3 scientific globes made before 1500). It was the starting-point for the design of many maps in antiquity and later in the Middle Ages (33) serving to illustrate books such as Aratus's Phaenomena. In the early fifteenth century scientific celestial maps (5) were constructed in their own right, independent of globes.
In this book all extant celestial maps and globes made before 1500 are described and analysed in detail. This prestigious study will appeal to academic historians of science and astronomy, and art historians alike.
A book that will have many uses and a long life. It is beautifully illustrated, with numerous high-quality black-and-white photographs and eight color plates. Anyone interested in the representations of the heavens before the modern period will inevitably need to dip into this important book.
Table of Contents:
Preliminaries
Celestial Globes in Antiquity
The descriptive tradition in the Middle Ages
Islamic celestial cartography
The mathematical tradition in medieval Europe
Epilogue
