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

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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