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Les manuscrits astrologiques latins conservés à la Bibliothèque nationale de France à Paris
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ISBN: 9782271082640 2271082641 Year: 2015 Volume: 84 2 Publisher: Paris: CNRS,

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"Ce second volume du Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum Latinorum (CCAL) décrit 350 manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale de France datant du IXe au XVIIIe siècle. Ces manuscrits constituent, tant par la quantité que par la variété, l'un des plus importants fonds en matière d'astrologie latine au monde. Toutes les époques et catégories de textes y sont représentées, ainsi que tous les classiques de l'astrologie latine antérieurs à 1500, aussi bien les originaux que les traductions du grec, de l'arabe et de l'hébreu. Ils témoignent de l'extraordinaire richesse de l'ancienne bibliothèque des rois de France et des grandes bibliothèques parisiennes confisquées pendant la Révolution, notamment celles de Saint-Germaindes-Prés, de Saint-Victor et de la Sorbonne"--Publisher's description.


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The Speculum Astronomiae and its enigma : astrology, theology and science in Albertus Magnus and his contemporaries
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ISBN: 0792313801 9048140986 9401734674 9780792313809 Year: 1992 Volume: 135 Publisher: Dordrecht Boston London Kluwer

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The attribution of the Speculum Astronomiae to Albertus Magnus became a controversial issue only recently, when the great neo-Thomist historian Pierre Mandonnet suggested -- without any antecedents -- that the author was Roger Bacon rather than Albert. Mandonnet's theses were refuted by Lynn Thorndike and have since then been the subject of widespread discussion. The present historiographical case-study considers this debate in the light of an analysis of texts by Albert himself, as well as other important authors, such as Bacon, Bonaventura, Thomas Aquinas, Witelo, Campanus of Novara, and others, which shows how widespread the general concept of the influence of the stars and other astrological ideas to be found in the Speculum were. Most of the scientific ideas of the Middle Ages were based on principles derived from the notion of celestial influence and its consequences. The Speculum drew the fundamental outlines of this discipline into a theoretical and bibliographical introduction -- no small achievement -- and was consequently greeted with great interest and used as a standard reference book for many centuries. Set against the background of discussions taking place in the 1260s, within the Dominican Order as well as in the Faculties of Arts, Zambelli removes all doubt that the Speculum was written by Albert, possibly with some collaboration.


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Les manuscrits astrologiques conservés à la Bayerische Staatsbibliothek de Munich
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ISSN: 00738212 ISBN: 9782271072818 2271072816 Year: 2011 Volume: 81 1 Publisher: Paris: CNRS,


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Astronomical Knowledge Transmission Through Illustrated Aratea Manuscripts
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ISSN: 2509310X ISBN: 3319567845 9783319567839 3319567837 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This 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.


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A saving science : capturing the heavens in Carolingian manuscripts
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ISBN: 0271078278 9780271078274 9780271071268 0271071265 Year: 2017 Publisher: University Park The Pennsylvania State University Press

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"Focusing on the Handbook of 809, explores how the liberal arts, and in particular astronomy, experienced a revival in the ninth-century court of Charlemagne. Documents the utility of the constellations for prelates who needed to fix the floating feast of Easter and reckon time"--Provided by publisher.

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