Antiquity Studies

Series | Antiquity Studies
Volume 13 | Edited book | Certissima signa

Certissima signa

A Venice Conference on Greek and Latin Astronomical Texts
open access | peer reviewed
    edited by
  • Filippomaria Pontani - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile

Abstract
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.

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

Permalink http://doi.org/10.14277/978-88-6969-165-2 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-165-2 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-7543-440-3 | Published Sept. 1, 2017 | Language it, fr, en

Copyright © 2017 Filippomaria Pontani. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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