Writing the Heavens : Celestial Observation in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

doi:10.1515/9783111610863

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Heydenreich, Aura (editor)

Klaeger, Florian (editor)

Mecke, Klaus (editor)

Vanderbeke, Dirk (editor)

Wilms, Jörn (editor)

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English

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Abstract

In the Middle Ages and early modernity, celestial observation was frequently a subject for verbal rather than numerical and geometrical recording. These records can now be difficult to decode, since what they address is frequently obscured by formal conventions of genre, imagery, rhetoric, prosody, to name but a few. The volume collects essays exploring such configurations between literature and observation from Europe to China.

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https://doab-dev.siscern.org/handle/20.500.12854/151411

Keywords

Medieval literature; early modern literature; astronomy; history of science; thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe; thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FP East Asia, Far East::1FPC China; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3K CE period up to c 1500::3KL c 1000 CE to c 1500; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DB Ancient, classical and medieval texts; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PG Astronomy, space and time::PGG Astronomical observation: observatories, equipment and methods