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Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 1991

... discovery in a solander (or storage) box of drawings donated by Katharine Eberley Gurley, the... more ... discovery in a solander (or storage) box of drawings donated by Katharine Eberley Gurley, the widow of William Frank Eugene Gurley, to ... widely in the work of renowned artists who scattered across Italy from Urbino and its environs: the antiquarian Girolamo Genga (1467-155i ...

Journal for the History of Astronomy, 2015

For nearly 150 years, scholars have devoted considerable effort trying understand the various mea... more For nearly 150 years, scholars have devoted considerable effort trying understand the various means by which the astrothesic knowledge of the Graeco-Roman world passed to the modern age. Thanks to the magisterial work of Paul Kunitzsch and others, our grasp of the tortuous journey of Ptolemy's Syntaxis mathematike from the original Greek to its Latin translations in the twelfth century has become much firmer. But despite the attention of a far wider range of scholars, the intricacies of the transmission of the Phaenomena of Aratus to the Latin West remain more elusive. This is primarily due to the fact that, soon after its composition, the poem attracted a huge entourage of ancillary material: the so-called 'Aratean corpus', composed of a rudimentary star catalogue, sets of celestial maps, a series of illustrated mythological explanations of the forms of the individual constellations and a potted biography of the author.Realising that the sorts of questions generated by the 'Aratean corpus' have yet to be solved by the practitioners of a single discipline working in isolation, the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa organised the first of what one hopes will be a continuing series of interdisciplinary workshops devoted to examining a specific set of tightly-defined topics from a variety of scholarly viewpoints.Their first subject of study was the Vatican manuscript, BAV Vat. grec. 1087, which is a collection of astronomical material compiled sometime between the late 1320s and early 1330s by the Byzantine astronomer, historian, theologian and antiquarian, Nicephoros Gregoras. Its contents include one of the oldest manuscripts of the introduction to Ptolemaic astronomy by Theodoros Metochites (the Stoicheiosis astronomike , completed in 1316); Metochites's Commentary on the Syntaxis mathematike ; a fragment of Theon of Alexandria's Commentary on the Syntaxis mathematike ; a set of unique excerpts and annotated illustrations connected to the catasteristic fables reputedly collected by Eratosthenes, now known as the 'Fragmenta vaticana catasterismorum' ; and a melange of two versions of a Treatise on the astrolabe by Gregoras himself. The codex was probably produced in the scriptorium at the monastery complex of Chora, just outside the city walls of Constantinople. Even though several scribal hands have been identified, the whole manuscript bears traces of corrections and annotations in Gregoras's own hand.The essays within this volume provide a fascinating series of short studies of several key issues. Filippomaria Ponanti presents an introduction to the astronomical texts and sets them within the larger ambit of Byzantine astronomy during the Paleologian renaissance of the latter half of the thirteenth and early years of the fourteenth centuries. …

It has been well established and broadly recognized that, especially in our times, knowledge is p... more It has been well established and broadly recognized that, especially in our times, knowledge is power. On the physical level technological advances have replaced raw materials as the foundation of the strength of nations. In the social order "think-tanks" have become central to the effective exercise of political power. Most recently, an emerging awareness of the properly personal dimensions of life has directed attention to the conscious creativity of peoples, that is, to their culture and its values. Research in this area has become essential for any effective response to the problems of our times, as well as for opening new possibilities for life in the 21st Century. Three events signal new attention to this issue. The first is the Centenary of The Catholic University of America (CUA), founded by the Roman Catholic Bishops of the United States to provide the advanced scholarship required in order for the Church to be an integral part of American culture. This is taking place at the same time as the second centenary of Georgetown University, the oldest of Catholic Colleges and Universities in the United States. The second is a study coordinated by the late Francis X. Gannon, Catholicism in America: Research Planning and Consultation Experience in America since Vatican II. This is being carried out by scholars in commemoration and celebration of the 25 years of statistically based research by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA). The third is a conference for Presidents of Catholic Universities and Colleges: "The Church and American Culture in the Post-Vatican II Era: The Challenge to the Catholic Intellectual Community". This was conceived by Donald S. Nesti, C.S.Sp., and Cassian Yuhaus, C.P., of Duquesne University and presented in collaboration with the Pontifical Council for Culture. All three events underline the importance of research in the effort not only to achieve a mature cultural self-awareness, but to answer responsibly to the challenges we face for the future. This effort must depend centrally upon scholars in their university contexts, for it is there that extensive teams of specialists in the full range of disciplines have been brought together and supported. Though this has been done to serve as leaven in contemporary society, the random efforts of even large sets of individual researchers will not suffice-particularly when their best research efforts are being siphoned off by contracts from business, the military, etc. It is time then to review steps which have been taken since Vatican II to provide coordination and orientation for this research mission of the universities and to begin to lay the foundations for effective work in the future. This volume seeks to contribute to this task by examining the challenge of research to scholars and universities. This will be done in four parts devoted respectively to the (1) nature, (2) structures, (3) agendas, and (4) implementation of research. Part I provides the basic documents reflecting the emergence during the 1970s of a renewed understanding of the nature of the research role of universities in the Church and the n. Work by The International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU) in Paris, Salamanca and Grottaferrata stimulated a planning session by Presidents of the larger research-oriented Catholic Universities. This, not only founded an American coordinating committee, but contributed, in turn, to the design of IFCU's Coordinating Center for Inter-disciplinary Research. The opening section of this volume presents the related papers by

Whereas the earliest history ... more Whereas the earliest history of illustrations accompanying the text of Hyginus's De Astronomia remains a mystery, the iconography found in fifteenth-century illuminated manuscripts is relatively straight-forward and fairly consistent. Intriguingly, however, the woodblock images in the first illustrated edition of the text (Venice: E. Ratdolt, 1482) do not appear to follow any known Hyginian model, but closely resemble the idiosyncratic drawings that accompany the texts of Michael Scot's Liber introductorius. This paper explores current assumptions about Ratdolt's pictorial model and traces the impact of his illustrations on subsequent generations of astro-mythological treatises.

PART I GLOBES AND SPHERES The phenomena: an introduction to globes and spheres The history of the... more PART I GLOBES AND SPHERES The phenomena: an introduction to globes and spheres The history of the collection The construction and conservation of globes The navigator's globe Globe making in the British Isles Clockwork globes The Demongenet tradition in globe making Globes in art: problems of interpretation and "Uncommonly handsome globes" PART II THE CATALOGUE Explanation of the catalogue Armillary spheres Islamic globes Western manuscript globes Western printed globes and planispheres Bibliography General appendices 1. Old and new inventory numbers 2. Globes listed according to new inventory numbers 3. Globes listed according to nationality and then in chronological order 4. Chronological survey of constellations Indexes Explorers Star names and constellations General

Will reading habit influence your life? Many say yes. Reading a guide to the royal observatory gr... more Will reading habit influence your life? Many say yes. Reading a guide to the royal observatory greenwich is a good habit; you can develop this habit to be such interesting way. Yeah, reading habit will not only make you have any favourite activity. It will be one of guidance of your life. When reading has become a habit, you will not make it as disturbing activities or as boring activity. You can gain many benefits and importances of reading.

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Journal for the History of Astronomy, 2019

Book Reviews 483 cosmologies), regardless of whether shamans were involved. A significant aspect ... more Book Reviews 483 cosmologies), regardless of whether shamans were involved. A significant aspect of what Bender calls his "modern conjecture" has to do with lunar standstills, a controversial topic that this reviewer and several colleagues will address in a forthcoming article. Land of the Shamans is a very nice book, treating many interesting aspects; yet I fear it does not reach the objective stated in its subtitle. The volume deals with archaeology, landscape archaeology, symbolism and worldviews of ancient people, but it sheds little light on the basic questions that humans, past and present, seek in cosmology.

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Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 1991

Journal for the History of Astronomy, 2015

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Journal for the History of Astronomy, 2019

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