LEADER 04531nam 22006255 450 001 9910254597803321 005 20230224033601.0 010 $a3-319-56784-5 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-56784-6 035 $a(CKB)3710000001631568 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-56784-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4986959 035 $a(PPN)203852575 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001631568 100 $a20170824d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAstronomical Knowledge Transmission Through Illustrated Aratea Manuscripts /$fby Marion Dolan 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (XXIV, 464 p. 113 illus., 98 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aHistorical & Cultural Astronomy,$x2509-3118 311 $a3-319-56783-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aChapter 1: Background and Objectives -- Chapter 2: Possible Classical Models for Aratea Illustrations -- Chapter 3: Astronomical Knowledge Transmission Through Illustrated Aratea Manuscript -- Chapter 4: The Transmission of Astronomy and Astrology in the Medieval Islamic World -- Chapter 5: Introduction of Arabic Astronomy and Illustrative Traditions to the Latin West -- Chapter 6: Astronomical Symbolism in the Carolingian Period -- Chapter 7: Ninth-Century Aratea Manuscripts -- Chapter 8: Analysis and Conclusions -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aThis carefully researched monograph is a historical investigation of the illustrated Aratea astronomical manuscript and its many interpretations over the centuries. Aratus' 270 B.C.E. Greek poem describing the constellations and astrological phenomena was translated and copied over 800 years into illuminated manuscripts that preserved and illustrated these ancient stories about the constellations. The Aratea survives in its entirety due to multiple translations from Greek to Latin and even to Arabic, with many illuminated versions being commissioned over the ages. The survey encompasses four interrelated disciplines: history of literature, history of myth, history of science, and history of art. Aratea manuscripts by their nature are a meeting place of these distinct branches, and the culling of information from historical literature and from the manuscripts themselves focuses on a wider, holistic view; a narrow approach could not provide a proper prospective. What is most essential to know about this work is that because of its successive incarnations it has survived and been reinterpreted through the centuries, which speaks to its importance in all of these disciplines. This book brings a better understanding of the history, changes and transmission of the original astronomical Phaenomena poem. Historians, art historians, astronomy lovers, and historians of astronomy will learn more specialized details concerning the Aratea and how the tradition survived from the Middle Ages. It is a credit to the poetry of Aratus and the later interpreters of the text that its pagan aspects were not edited nor removed, but respected and maintained in the exact same form despite the fact that all sixty Aratea manuscripts mentioned in this study were produced under the rule of Christianity. 410 0$aHistorical & Cultural Astronomy,$x2509-3118 606 $aAstronomy?Observations 606 $aScience?History 606 $aLiterature, Medieval 606 $aPhysics?Philosophy 606 $aAstronomy, Observations and Techniques 606 $aHistory of Science 606 $aMedieval Literature 606 $aPhilosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy 615 0$aAstronomy?Observations. 615 0$aScience?History. 615 0$aLiterature, Medieval. 615 0$aPhysics?Philosophy. 615 14$aAstronomy, Observations and Techniques. 615 24$aHistory of Science. 615 24$aMedieval Literature. 615 24$aPhilosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy. 676 $a881.01 700 $aDolan$b Marion$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0818354 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910254597803321 996 $aAstronomical Knowledge Transmission Through Illustrated Aratea Manuscripts$91824720 997 $aUNINA