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

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 | Pubblicato 01 Settembre 2017 | Lingua en, it, fr

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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