Illustrating the Phaenomena PDF book is popular Art book written by Elly Dekker. The book was released by Oxford University Press on 2013 with total hardcover pages 486. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read Illustrating the Phaenomena by Elly Dekker in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
In this volume all extant celestial maps and globes made before 1500 are described and analysed. It also discusses the astronomical sources involved in making t
This carefully researched monograph is a historical investigation of the illustrated Aratea astronomical manuscript and its many interpretations over the centur
After the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Phaenomena was the most widely read poem in the ancient world. Its fame was immediate. It was translated into Latin by Ovid
The Phainomena or Heavenly Displays of Aratus is a classic poem from ancient Greece, translated here into English verse by R. Brown. This beautiful and evocativ
In the rapidly changing world of the early Middle Ages, depictions of the cosmos represented a consistent point of reference across the three dominant states--t
