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

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 en, fr, it

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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