LEADER 04298nam 22007211c 450 001 9910461500203321 005 20200115203623.0 010 $a1-4725-4091-3 010 $a1-283-20160-7 010 $a9786613201607 010 $a0-8264-2494-5 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472540911 035 $a(CKB)2670000000107014 035 $a(EBL)743025 035 $a(OCoLC)741690161 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000525861 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12231292 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000525861 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10508813 035 $a(PQKB)11521189 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC743025 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL743025 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11235650 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL320160 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09255109 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000107014 100 $a20140929d1989 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aStars, minds, and fate $eessays in ancient and medieval cosmology $fJ.D. North 210 1$aLondon $aRonceverte, W. Va. $cHambledon Press $d1989. 215 $a1 online resource (458 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-907628-94-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index 327 $aContents; Acknowledgements; Preface; List of Illustrations; 1 The Attractions of Past Science; 2 Moon and Megaliths; 3 By Direction from Above; 4 Neolithic Newtons; 5 Venus, By Jupiter!; 6 On the Trail of the Comet; 7 The Culmination of Ptolemy; 8 Astrology and the Fortunes of Churches; 9 Chronology and the Age of the World; 10 Between Experience and Experiment; 11 Opus quarundam rotarum mirabilium; 12 Monasticism and the First Mechanical Clocks; 13 Hierarchy, Creation, and II Veltro: Three Footnotes to Dante's Inferno; 14 The Astrolabe; 15 Astrolabes and the Hour-Line Ritual 327 $a16 Summa ratione confectum: An Astrolabe Drawn by Computer17 Eternity and Infinity in Late Medieval Thought; 18 Celestial Influence - the Major Premiss of Astrology; 19 Intimations of Cosmic Unity? Fourteenth-Century Views on Celestial and Sub-Lunar Motion; 20 Kinematics - More Ethereal than Elementary; 21 The Alfonsine Tables in England; 22 1348 and All That: Oxford Science and the Black Death; 23 Nicolaus Kratzer - The King's Astronomer; 24 The Medieval Background to Copernicus; Index 330 8 $aPublished over a period of 20 years the essays collected together in this volume all relate to the lasting human preoccupation with cosmological matters and modern responses to them. The eclecticism of the typical medieval scholar might now seem astonishing, regrettable, amusing, or derisory, according to one's view of how rigid intellectual barriers should be. In Stars, Fate & Mind North argues that we will seriously misunderstand ancient and medieval thought if we are not prepared to share a willingness to look across such frontiers as those dividing astrology from ecclesiastical history, biblical chronology from astronomy, and angelic hierarchies from the planetary spheres, theology from the theory of the continuum, celestial laws from terrestrial, or the work of the clockmaker from the work of God himself, namely the universe. Surveying the work of such controversial scholars as Alexander Thom and Immanuel Velikovsky this varied volume brings together current scholarship on cosmology, and as the title suggest considers the confluence of matters of the stars, fate and the mind. The collection is accompanied by further commentary from the author and new illustrations. 606 $aCosmology, Ancient 606 $2General & world history 606 $aCosmology, Medieval 606 $aAstronomy, Ancient 606 $aAstronomy, Medieval 606 $aAstrology 606 $aScience$xHistory 615 0$aCosmology, Ancient. 615 0$aCosmology, Medieval. 615 0$aAstronomy, Ancient. 615 0$aAstronomy, Medieval. 615 0$aAstrology. 615 0$aScience$xHistory. 676 $a523.1 700 $aNorth$b John David$049603 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461500203321 996 $aStars, minds, and fate$92249704 997 $aUNINA