Book ID: CBB001551484

Sonne, Mond und Venus: Visualisierungen astronomischen Wissens im frühneuzeitlichen Rome (2013)

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Feist, Ulrike (Author)


Akademie-Verlag


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: viii + 259 pp.; ill.
Language: German

The history of science is a history of picturing. The volume presents two case studies of early modern visualizations of astronomical knowledge: a monumental mirror sundial from 1644 and a book on the planet Venus of 1728. It is shown that a successful reception history may be less depended on the correctness of the visualized knowledge, but rather by the respective strategies of picturing and evidence generation was affected. The investigation of the problem areas the lack of reception and the scientific error leads just as far-reaching insights into the scientific theory and practice as the pursuit of success stories.

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Review Blume, Dieter; Cohen, H. Floris (2015) Review of "Sonne, Mond und Venus: Visualisierungen astronomischen Wissens im frühneuzeitlichen Rome". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 444). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Savoie, Denis
Kragh, Helge S.
Stefano Barbolini
Sergei J. Maslikov
Rappenglück, Michael A.
Giovanni Garofalo
Concepts
Astronomy
Instruments, astronomical
Sundials
Venus
Sun
Moon
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
Ancient
Medieval
20th century
19th century
Places
England
Rhodes (Greece)
Cairo (Egypt)
Guatemala
Florence (Italy)
Poland
Institutions
Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg)
Whipple Museum of the History of Science (Cambridge, Eng.)
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