Format:
Online-Ressource (458 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780907628941
Series Statement:
Criminal Practice Ser.
Content:
Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- 1 The Attractions of Past Science -- 2 Moon and Megaliths -- 3 By Direction from Above -- 4 Neolithic Newtons -- 5 Venus, By Jupiter! -- 6 On the Trail of the Comet -- 7 The Culmination of Ptolemy -- 8 Astrology and the Fortunes of Churches -- 9 Chronology and the Age of the World -- 10 Between Experience and Experiment -- 11 Opus quarundam rotarum mirabilium -- 12 Monasticism and the First Mechanical Clocks -- 13 Hierarchy, Creation, and II Veltro: Three Footnotes to Dante's Inferno -- 14 The Astrolabe
Content:
15 Astrolabes and the Hour-Line Ritual -- 16 Summa ratione confectum: An Astrolabe Drawn by Computer -- 17 Eternity and Infinity in Late Medieval Thought -- 18 Celestial Influence - the Major Premiss of Astrology -- 19 Intimations of Cosmic Unity? Fourteenth-Century Views on Celestial and Sub-Lunar Motion -- 20 Kinematics - More Ethereal than Elementary -- 21 The Alfonsine Tables in England -- 22 1348 and All That: Oxford Science and the Black Death -- 23 Nicolaus Kratzer - The King's Astronomer -- 24 The Medieval Background to Copernicus -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J
Content:
K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; List of Illustrations; 1 The Attractions of Past Science; 2 Moon and Megaliths; 3 By Direction from Above; 4 Neolithic Newtons; 5 Venus, By Jupiter!; 6 On the Trail of the Comet; 7 The Culmination of Ptolemy; 8 Astrology and the Fortunes of Churches; 9 Chronology and the Age of the World; 10 Between Experience and Experiment; 11 Opus quarundam rotarum mirabilium; 12 Monasticism and the First Mechanical Clocks; 13 Hierarchy, Creation, and II Veltro: Three Footnotes to Dante's Inferno; 14 The Astrolabe; 15 Astrolabes and the Hour-Line Ritual
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16 Summa ratione confectum: An Astrolabe Drawn by Computer17 Eternity and Infinity in Late Medieval Thought; 18 Celestial Influence - the Major Premiss of Astrology; 19 Intimations of Cosmic Unity? Fourteenth-Century Views on Celestial and Sub-Lunar Motion; 20 Kinematics - More Ethereal than Elementary; 21 The Alfonsine Tables in England; 22 1348 and All That: Oxford Science and the Black Death; 23 Nicolaus Kratzer - The King's Astronomer; 24 The Medieval Background to Copernicus; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780826424945
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780907628941
Additional Edition:
Print version Stars, Mind & Fate : Essays in Ancient and Mediaeval Cosmology
Language:
English
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