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Author:   Julia Ellinghaus ,  Volker R. Remmert
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   13
Weight:   0.692kg
ISBN:  

9789004471887

ISBN 10:   900447188
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   21 December 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction   Julia Ellinghaus and Volker Remmert Part 1 The Horologium Ahaz and Joshua Stopping the Sun in Early Modern Printed Material 1 The Prayer of Joshua and the Dial of Ahaz Paratactic Scriptural Illustration in the Lempereur, Vorsterman, and Van Liesveldt Bibles   Walter S. Melion 2 Mathematical Certainty and Biblical Inerrancy Pedro Nunes and the Retrogradation of Shadows at the Dial of Ahaz   Henrique Leitão 3 Appealing to Ahaz The Jesuits and the Sundial of Ahaz in the Era of Copernican Astronomy   Brent Purkaple Part 2 The Horologium Ahaz and Joshua Stopping the Sun on Early Modern Scientific Instruments 4 Turning Back the Sun Christoph Schissler’s ‘Horologium Ahaz’ as ‘Kunststück’   Andrew Morrall 5 Manipulating the Sun in Depictions on Early Modern Scientific Instruments An Iconographic Study   Julia Ellinghaus and Volker Remmert Part 3 The Horologium Ahaz and Joshua Stopping the Sun in Art and Architecture in Specific Locations 6 Stairway to Heaven The Marvellous Staircases of the Medici Villa at Pratolino   Denis Ribouillault 7 Joshua Stopping the Sun in the Gesù A Hypothesis   Evonne Levy Bibliography Index

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Julia Ellinghaus, Ph.D. (2006), art historian with a focus on iconography and Northern European art of the 17th and 18th century. Since 2018 she is research assistant at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Science and Technology Studies (IZWT) at the University of Wuppertal. Volker R. Remmert, Ph.D. (1997), studied history and mathematics. He teaches history of science and technology at the University of Wuppertal and has been director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Science and Technology Studies (IZWT) since 2011. His research interests are in the history of early modern science and in the history of mathematics in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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