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Writing the Heavens : Celestial Observation in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
Mitwirkende(r): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Buch (Online)Sprache: Englisch Reihen: Literatur- und Naturwissenschaften Series ; v.10Verlag: Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2024Copyright-Datum: ©2025Auflage: 1st edBeschreibung: 1 Online-Ressource (286 pages)ISBN:- 9783111610863
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Zusammenfassung: 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. How, contributors ask, were verbal representations of celestial phenomena encoded and self-consciously placed vis-à-vis other systems of representation and knowledge? What kinds of data are represented, and what are the modes in which they are communicated? What interpretational problems arise when present-day disciplines like climatology, meteorology, geophysics, and astronomy, but also literary studies, try to access them? How were discourses on religion, law, anthropology, aesthetics, colonialism etc. linked, in and through their verbal presentation, with astronomical observation and knowledge? How did individual scholars, texts, and concepts travel between European and non-European cultures, both in space and in time, and which constructions of self and other arose in the process?PPN: PPN: 1922669318Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Writing the Heavens -- I The Middle Ages -- Mirari faciunt magis hec quam scire: Ways of (Not) Understanding the Cosmos in Johannes de Hauvilla's Architrenius -- Between Nigromancy and Erudite meisterschaft: Astronomical-Cosmological Knowledge in Middle High German Sangspruchdichtung -- Astronomical (In)accuracy in Heinrich von Mügeln's Der meide kranz -- The Astronomical Treatise Von den 11 Himmelssphären and Its Relation to the Iatromathematisches Hausbuch -- II The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- Heavenly Theater: Writing about Astronomy and Astrology in Jean Bodin's Démonomanie des sorciers -- Astronomy for the Public -- Anatomical Descriptions in Star Catalogues: Ptolemy, Brahe, Halley, and Hevelius -- III The Long Eighteenth Century -- Imagining the Extra-Terrestrial 'Other' in Early Modern Literature -- Celestial Education -- The End of 'Heavenly Writing', or: Speech of the Dead Christ down from the Universe That There Is No God (1796) -- IV Early Modern China -- Chinese Heavens in European Literatures, c. 1650-1700 -- "Heavenly Patterns" and Everyday Life in a Nutshell: Astronomy in Pre-Modern Chinese Handy Encyclopaedias -- List of Contributors -- Index of Names
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