Manipulating the sun: picturing astronomical miracles from the Bible in the early modern era
"This volume puts two biblical miracles - the Sun reversing its course in II Kings 20:8-11/Isaiah 38:8 (Horologium Ahaz) and the Sun standing still in Joshua 10:12 -, in the early modern period centre stage. We pay special attention to the development of related imagery, their role as anti-Cope...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
[2024]
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Series/Journal: | Studies and sources in the material and visual history of science
volume 13 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible. Joshua, X, 12-13
B Sun In art B Sun In the Bible B Bible. Kings, 2nd, XX, 8-11 B Art and science (Europe) History 17th century B Art and science (Europe) History 16th century B Supernatural in art B Supernatural in the Bible B Bible. Isaiah, XXXVIII, 8 |
| Summary: | "This volume puts two biblical miracles - the Sun reversing its course in II Kings 20:8-11/Isaiah 38:8 (Horologium Ahaz) and the Sun standing still in Joshua 10:12 -, in the early modern period centre stage. We pay special attention to the development of related imagery, their role as anti-Copernican arguments (in text and image), their reception, their treatment in the mathematical sciences, and their various cultural layers, with a focus on the history of art and the history of science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The material discussed spreads from rather prosaic mathematical reflections to highly appealing visual representations of the two miracles"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | pages cm |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-47188-7 |
