Del 13 - Nuncius Series

Manipulating the Sun

Picturing Astronomical Miracles from the Bible in the Early Modern Era

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

2 799 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-12-21
Mått155 x 235 x 26 mm
Vikt692 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieDel 13 i Nuncius Series
Antal sidor328
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004471887

Tillhör följande kategorier

Julia Ellinghaus, Ph.D. (2006), art historian with a focus on iconography and Northern European art of the 17th and 18th century. Since 2018 she is research assistant at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Science and Technology Studies (IZWT) at the University of Wuppertal. Volker R. Remmert, Ph.D. (1997), studied history and mathematics. He teaches history of science and technology at the University of Wuppertal and has been director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Science and Technology Studies (IZWT) since 2011. His research interests are in the history of early modern science and in the history of mathematics in the 19th and 20th centuries.

List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroductionJulia Ellinghaus and Volker RemmertPart 1The Horologium Ahaz and Joshua Stopping the Sun in Early Modern Printed Material1 The Prayer of Joshua and the Dial of Ahaz Paratactic Scriptural Illustration in the Lempereur, Vorsterman, and Van Liesveldt BiblesWalter S. Melion2 Mathematical Certainty and Biblical Inerrancy Pedro Nunes and the Retrogradation of Shadows at the Dial of AhazHenrique Leitão3 Appealing to Ahaz The Jesuits and the Sundial of Ahaz in the Era of Copernican AstronomyBrent PurkaplePart 2The Horologium Ahaz and Joshua Stopping the Sun on Early Modern Scientific Instruments4 Turning Back the Sun Christoph Schissler’s ‘Horologium Ahaz’ as ‘Kunststück’Andrew Morrall5 Manipulating the Sun in Depictions on Early Modern Scientific Instruments An Iconographic StudyJulia Ellinghaus and Volker RemmertPart 3The Horologium Ahaz and Joshua Stopping the Sun in Art and Architecture in Specific Locations6 Stairway to Heaven The Marvellous Staircases of the Medici Villa at PratolinoDenis Ribouillault7 Joshua Stopping the Sun in the Gesù A HypothesisEvonne LevyBibliographyIndex