Manipulating the Sun: Picturing Astronomical Miracles from the Bible in the Early Modern Era (Nuncius, 13)

Manipulating the Sun: Picturing Astronomical Miracles from the Bible in the Early Modern Era (Nuncius, 13)
by: Julia Ellinghaus (Editor),Volker Remmert (Editor)
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Publication Date: 2023/12/21
Language: English
Print Length: 328 pages
ISBN-10: 900447188X
ISBN-13: 9789004471887
Book 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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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. Read more