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245 0 0 _aHeaven and Earth united :
_binstruments in astrological contexts /
_cedited by Richard Dunn, Silke Ackermann, and Giorgio Strano.
246 3 0 _aInstruments in astrological contexts
264 1 _aLeiden ;
_aBoston :
_bBrill,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c©2018
300 _axiv, 286 pages :
_billustrations (some color) ;
_c25 cm.
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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490 0 _aScientific instruments and collections,
_x1877-7066 ;
_vvolume 6
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aUsing astrolabes for astrological purposes : the earliest evidence revisited / Petra G. Schmidl -- What's on the back of an astrolabe? Astrolabes as supports for planetary calculators / Seb Falk -- Medical and astrological plates : their roles in medieval and Renaissance knowledge / Josefina Rodriguez-Arribas -- "Preciseness and pleasure" : the astrological diptychs of Thomas Hood / Stephen Johnston -- Displaying astrological knowledge through tabulation : some notes pertaining to particular arrangement on instruments / Gunther Oestmann -- Astrological aspectaria on early modern instruments / Louise E. Devoy -- Italian astronomical clocks as public astrological machines / Marisa Addomine -- Astrological time in public space : the Gorlitz Arachne (1550) and planetary hours / Richard L. Kremer -- The heavens at the Medici court : Antonio Santucci's cosmological models / Giorgio Strano -- Were globes used in the practice of early modern astrology? / Jim Bennett and Sylvia Sumira -- Instruments and the astrologer's image / Richard Dunn -- Defining scientific instruments in astrological practice : a response / Marvin Bolt -- Glossary / Richard Dunn.
520 _a"Historically, the idea that the stars and planets influence the Earth and its inhabitants has proved powerful in almost every culture, offering an important context for the use of mathematical and astronomical instruments. In the past, however, historians of astronomy have paid relatively little attention to astrology and other "non-scientific" topics, while historians of astrology have tended to concentrate on the analysis of texts rather than surviving artefacts, scientific instruments in particular. Heaven and Earth United is an attempt to redress the balance through an exploration of the astrological contexts in which instruments once found a place"--
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650 0 _aAstronomical instruments
_xHistory.
653 2 0 _aAstrology
653 0 _aScientific instrument
653 5 _aEurope-general
700 1 _aDunn, Richard,
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700 1 _aAckermann, Silke,
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700 1 _aStrano, Giorgio,
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758 _ihas work:
_aHeaven and Earth united (Text)
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776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_tHeaven and Earth united
_dLeiden ; Boston, MA : Brill, [2018]
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