{"product_id":"heaven-and-earth-united-instruments-in-astrological-contexts-9789004362758","title":"Heaven and Earth United: Instruments in Astrological Contexts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHistorically, 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.    Contributors are Silke Ackermann, Marisa Addomine, Jim Bennett, Marvin Bolt, Louise E. Devoy, Richard Dunn, Seb Falk, Stephen Johnston, Richard L. Kremer, Günther Oestmann, Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Petra G. Schmidl, Giorgio Strano, and Sylvia Sumira.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList ofFigures and Tables  Contributors    Introduction    1 Using Astrolabes for Astrological Purposes: The Earliest Evidence Revisited   Petra G. Schmidl    2 What’s on the Back of an Astrolabe? Astrolabes as Supports for Planetary Calculators   Seb Falk    3 Medical and Astrological Plates: Their Roles in Medieval and Renaissance Knowledge   Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas    4 “Preciseness and Pleasure”: The Astrological Diptychs of Thomas Hood   Stephen Johnston    5 Displaying Astrological Knowledge through Tabulation: Some Notes Pertaining to Particular Arrangement on Instruments   Günther Oestmann    6 Astrological Aspectaria on Early Modern Instruments   Louise E. Devoy    7 Italian Astronomical Clocks as Public Astrological Machines   Marisa Addomine    8 Astrological Time in Public Space: The Görlitz Arachne (1550) and Planetary Hours   Richard L. Kremer    9 The Heavens at the Medici Court: Antonio Santucci’s Cosmological Models   Giorgio Strano    10 Were Globes Used in the Practice of Early Modern Astrology?   Jim Bennett and Sylvia Sumira    11 Instruments and the Astrologer’s Image   Richard Dunn*    12 Defining Scientific Instruments in Astrological Practice: A Response   Marvin Bolt    Glossary 263   Richard Dunn    General Index 277","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210747961687,"sku":"9789004362758","price":145.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/heaven-and-earth-united-instruments-in-astrological-contexts-9789004362758","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}