Manipulating the Sun

Picturing Astronomical Miracles from the Bible in the Early Modern Era
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-47188-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 606 g

Reihe: Nuncius Series

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 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ellinghaus, Julia

Remmert, Volker R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Julia Ellinghaus and Volker Remmert

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

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



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

Über Autor(innen)

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.