Heaven and Earth United : Instruments in Astrological Contexts (Scientific Instruments and Collections)

Dunn, Richard (EDT)/ Ackermann, Silke (EDT)/ Strano, Giorgio (EDT)

Brill（2018/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 286 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004362758

Full Description

Historically, the idea that the stars and planets influence the Earth and its inhabitants has proved powerful in almost every culture, offering an important context for the use of mathematical and astronomical instruments. In the past, however, historians of astronomy have paid relatively little attention to astrology and other "non-scientific" topics, while historians of astrology have tended to concentrate on the analysis of texts rather than surviving artefacts, scientific instruments in particular. Heaven and Earth United is an attempt to redress the balance through an exploration of the astrological contexts in which instruments once found a place.

Contributors are Silke Ackermann, Marisa Addomine, Jim Bennett, Marvin Bolt, Louise E. Devoy, Richard Dunn, Seb Falk, Stephen Johnston, Richard L. Kremer, Günther Oestmann, Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Petra G. Schmidl, Giorgio Strano, and Sylvia Sumira.

Contents

List ofFigures and Tables

Contributors

Introduction

1 Using Astrolabes for Astrological Purposes: The Earliest Evidence Revisited

 Petra G. Schmidl

2 What's on the Back of an Astrolabe? Astrolabes as Supports for Planetary Calculators

 Seb Falk

3 Medical and Astrological Plates: Their Roles in Medieval and Renaissance Knowledge

 Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas

4 "Preciseness and Pleasure": The Astrological Diptychs of Thomas Hood

 Stephen Johnston

5 Displaying Astrological Knowledge through Tabulation: Some Notes Pertaining to Particular Arrangement on Instruments

 Günther Oestmann

6 Astrological Aspectaria on Early Modern Instruments

 Louise E. Devoy

7 Italian Astronomical Clocks as Public Astrological Machines

 Marisa Addomine

8 Astrological Time in Public Space: The Görlitz Arachne (1550) and Planetary Hours

 Richard L. Kremer

9 The Heavens at the Medici Court: Antonio Santucci's Cosmological Models

 Giorgio Strano

10 Were Globes Used in the Practice of Early Modern Astrology?

 Jim Bennett and Sylvia Sumira

11 Instruments and the Astrologer's Image

 Richard Dunn*

12 Defining Scientific Instruments in Astrological Practice: A Response

 Marvin Bolt

Glossary 263

 Richard Dunn

General Index 277