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A Saving Science : Capturing the Heavens in Carolingian Manuscripts.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (313 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780271078274
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Saving ScienceLOC classification:
  • ND3399.L53 .R35 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Drogo and the Handbook of 809 -- Notes to Introduction -- PART I: Unveiling the Heavens over Carolingian Skies -- Chapter 1: Illuminating Science: Creating the Handbook of 809 -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2: Drogo's Copy of the Handbook of 809: A Simulacrum of Celestial Order -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- PLATES -- PART 2: Representing the Cosmos for Carolingian Hearts and Minds -- Chapter 3: Revealing Astronomy: Itinerant Painters and Shifting Signs -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4: Restoring What Was Lost: Astronomy and Natural Astrology in the Carolingian Era -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- COVER Back.
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COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Drogo and the Handbook of 809 -- Notes to Introduction -- PART I: Unveiling the Heavens over Carolingian Skies -- Chapter 1: Illuminating Science: Creating the Handbook of 809 -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2: Drogo's Copy of the Handbook of 809: A Simulacrum of Celestial Order -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- PLATES -- PART 2: Representing the Cosmos for Carolingian Hearts and Minds -- Chapter 3: Revealing Astronomy: Itinerant Painters and Shifting Signs -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4: Restoring What Was Lost: Astronomy and Natural Astrology in the Carolingian Era -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- COVER Back.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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