Title

Certissima signa

Description

The observation of the stars has never just been a matter of ‘science’, but has constantly interacted with other domains, such as philosophy, literature, medicine, religion, history and magic. Consequently, the history of astronomical writings involves very diverse skills and, therefore, calls for a cooperation between scholars. The present book represents such a shared attempt to investigate ancient, medieval and Renaissance astronomical texts, with a special focus on their transmission in manuscripts and prints, the relationship between texts and images, and the Nachleben of the Greco-Latin tradition in later Western culture.

Subject

Hyginus | Aratus | Cosmography | Castasterism | Astronomy | Editorial Technique | Book illustration | Manuel Bryenne | Diagram | Harmony of the spheres | Renaissance | Italian Humanism | Book Illustration | Star iconography | History of Libraries | Ancient astronomy | Celestial mythology | Treatises on Astrolabe | Owners and provenances | Astronomical illustration | Astronomical ancient printed books | Medieval manuscripts | Italian humanism | Astronomical Manuscripts | Catalogues and Shelfmarks | Hipparchus | Computer-assisted Critical Editions | Illuminated manuscripts | Zenith star method | Incunables | Classics | Incunables Classical tradition | Astrothesy | Manuscripts | Marciana National Library | Venice | Medieval astronomy | Eratosthenes | Harmonica | Pythagoreanism | Mediaeval astronomy | Aratean tradition | Cristannus De Prachaticz | Authorities | Classical Tradition | Illumination | Ancient Greek Music | Ancient and Modern | Aldine Press | Astral Mythology | Digital Stemmatology | Ptolemy | Ancient constellations | Constellations | Circumference of the earth

Publisher

Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari

Date

2017

Identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14277/978-88-6969-165-2

Type

Text

Format

PDF

Language

en

it

fr

Source

https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/134541

Relation

Antichistica 10

Rights

CC BY 4.0

Educational Level

Higher education | research

Interactivity Type

Expositive