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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:40:03 EST
- From: Stephen McCluskey <SCMCC@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>
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- Subject: Re: Medieval Astronomy
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- Andy --
- The information on astronomy in Western Europe in the Middle Ages
- is remarkably sparse, and largely buried in very obscure sources. Here are
- a few that you might be able to get your hands on.
- Good luck -- Steve McCluskey
-
- Pedersen, Olaf. "Astronomy". Pp. 303-337 in David C. Lindberg,
- _Science in the Middle Ages_. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Pr.,
- 1978.
- (The best place for a general introduction to astronomy in
- Western Europe in the Middle Ages)
-
- Jones, C. W. _Bedae opera de temporibus_. Cambridge: Mediaeval
- Academy of America, 1943.
- (Jones' introduction is the best thing on Easter Computus)
-
- Burnett, Charles, ed. _Adelard of Bath_: _An English Scientist and_
- _Arabist of the early Twelfth Century_, Warburg Institute
- Surveys and Texts, 14. London: University of London, 1987.
-
- Eastwood, Bruce S. "Origins and Contents of the Leiden Planetary
- Configuration (ms Voss. Q.79, fol 93v), an Artistic
- Astronomical Schema of the Early Middle Ages." _Viator_,
- 14(1983): 1-40, figs. 1-9.
-
- Eastwood, Bruce S. "Plinian astronomical diagrams in the early
- Middle Ages." Pp. 141-172 in Grant and Murdoch, _Mathematics_
- _and its applications to science..._.
-
- Eastwood, Bruce S. "Plinian astronomy in the Middle Ages and the
- Renaissance." Pp. 197-235 in French and Greenaway.
-
- French, Roger and Frank Greenaway. _ Science in the Early Roman_
- _Empire_: _Pliny the Elder, his Sources and Influence_. Totowa,
- N.J.: Barnes & Noble Books, 1986.
-
- Laistner, M. L. W. "The Western Church and Astrology during the
- Early Middle Ages." _Harvard Theological Review_, 34(1941):
- 251-275.
-
- McCluskey, Stephen C. "Gregory of Tours, Monastic Timekeeping,
- and Early Christian Attitudes to Astronomy." _Isis_,
- 81(1990): 8-22.
-
- Mercier, Raymond. "Astronomical Tables in the Twelfth Century."
- Pp. 87-115 in Charles Burnett, _Adelard of Bath_.
-
- Pedersen, Olaf. "The _corpus astronomicum_ and the traditions of
- Medieval Latin astronomy." Pp. 57-96 in [Owen Gingerich and
- Jerzy Dobrzycki, ed.], _Colloquia Copernica III_. Wroclaw:
- Ossolineum, 1975.
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