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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Julia Ellinghaus , Volker R. RemmertPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 13 Weight: 0.692kg ISBN: 9789004471887ISBN 10: 900447188 Pages: 328 Publication Date: 21 December 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList 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 IndexReviewsAuthor InformationJulia 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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