Manipulating the Sun

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