Manipulating the Sun
Picturing Astronomical Miracles from the Bible in the Early Modern Era
Published on 21. December 2023
Book
Hardback
340 pages
978-90-04-47188-7 (ISBN)
Description
This volume puts two biblical miracles - the Sun reversing its course in II Kings 20:8-11/Isaiah 38:8 (Horologium Ahaz) and the Sun standing still in Joshua 10:12 -, in the early modern period centre stage. We pay special attention to the development of related imagery, their role as anti-Copernican arguments (in text and image), their reception, their treatment in the mathematical sciences, and their various cultural layers, with a focus on the history of art and the history of science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The material discussed spreads from rather prosaic mathematical reflections to highly appealing visual representations of the two miracles.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
606 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-47188-7 (9789004471887)
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Persons
Julia Ellinghaus, Ph.D. (2006), art historian with a focus on iconography and Northern European art of the 17th and 18th century. Since 2018 she is research assistant at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Science and Technology Studies (IZWT) at the University of Wuppertal.
Volker R. Remmert, Ph.D. (1997), studied history and mathematics. He teaches history of science and technology at the University of Wuppertal and has been director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Science and Technology Studies (IZWT) since 2011. His research interests are in the history of early modern science and in the history of mathematics in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Volker R. Remmert, Ph.D. (1997), studied history and mathematics. He teaches history of science and technology at the University of Wuppertal and has been director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Science and Technology Studies (IZWT) since 2011. His research interests are in the history of early modern science and in the history of mathematics in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Content
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
??Julia? ?Ellinghaus?? and ??Volker? ?Remmert?????
Part 1?
The Horologium Ahaz and Joshua Stopping the Sun in Early Modern Printed Material?
1?The Prayer of Joshua and the Dial of Ahaz? Paratactic Scriptural Illustration in the Lempereur, Vorsterman, and Van Liesveldt Bibles???
??Walter S.? ?Melion?????
2?Mathematical Certainty and Biblical Inerrancy Pedro Nunes and the Retrogradation of Shadows at the Dial of Ahaz???
??Henrique? ?Leit?a?o?????
3?Appealing to Ahaz The Jesuits and the Sundial of Ahaz in the Era of Copernican Astronomy???
??Brent? ?Purkaple??????
Part 2?
The Horologium Ahaz and Joshua Stopping the Sun on Early Modern Scientific Instruments?
4?Turning Back the Sun Christoph Schissler's 'Horologium Ahaz' as 'Kunstst?ue?ck'???
??Andrew? ?Morrall?????
5?Manipulating the Sun in Depictions on Early Modern Scientific Instruments An Iconographic Study???
??Julia? ?Ellinghaus?? and ??Volker? ?Remmert??????
Part 3?
The Horologium Ahaz and Joshua Stopping the Sun in Art and Architecture in Specific Locations?
6?Stairway to Heaven The Marvellous Staircases of the Medici Villa at Pratolino???
??Denis? ?Ribouillault?????
7?Joshua Stopping the Sun in the Gesu A Hypothesis???
??Evonne? ?Levy??????
Bibliography
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
??Julia? ?Ellinghaus?? and ??Volker? ?Remmert?????
Part 1?
The Horologium Ahaz and Joshua Stopping the Sun in Early Modern Printed Material?
1?The Prayer of Joshua and the Dial of Ahaz? Paratactic Scriptural Illustration in the Lempereur, Vorsterman, and Van Liesveldt Bibles???
??Walter S.? ?Melion?????
2?Mathematical Certainty and Biblical Inerrancy Pedro Nunes and the Retrogradation of Shadows at the Dial of Ahaz???
??Henrique? ?Leit?a?o?????
3?Appealing to Ahaz The Jesuits and the Sundial of Ahaz in the Era of Copernican Astronomy???
??Brent? ?Purkaple??????
Part 2?
The Horologium Ahaz and Joshua Stopping the Sun on Early Modern Scientific Instruments?
4?Turning Back the Sun Christoph Schissler's 'Horologium Ahaz' as 'Kunstst?ue?ck'???
??Andrew? ?Morrall?????
5?Manipulating the Sun in Depictions on Early Modern Scientific Instruments An Iconographic Study???
??Julia? ?Ellinghaus?? and ??Volker? ?Remmert??????
Part 3?
The Horologium Ahaz and Joshua Stopping the Sun in Art and Architecture in Specific Locations?
6?Stairway to Heaven The Marvellous Staircases of the Medici Villa at Pratolino???
??Denis? ?Ribouillault?????
7?Joshua Stopping the Sun in the Gesu A Hypothesis???
??Evonne? ?Levy??????
Bibliography
Index