Manipulating the Sun:Picturing Astronomical Miracles from the Bible in the Early Mode 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 mode period centre stage. We pay special attention to the development of related imagery, their role as anti-Copeican 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 mode period centre stage. We pay special attention to the development of related imagery, their role as anti-Copeican 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.