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

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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