Imagining the Heavens across Eurasia (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Mimesis International, MI, 2025
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Paperback. In Imagining the Heavens across Eurasia, 20 authors tell in novel ways the histories of astral knowledge through objects and their imagery. These objects include, for instance, caves and buildings, manuscripts and prints, textiles and metal dishes, instruments and paintings, monuments, and sculptures. Each chapter focuses on specific items, analysing their pictorial content and situating them in the contexts of their production and usage. As its main issue, the book addresses the knowledge inscribed in these images and their material carriers. Particular attention is paid to the interconnection between images, materials, themes, and objects across space and time. This approach enables the authors to highlight the numerous cross-cultural relations between the objects, interlinking their chapters with each other. Thus, this book offers a richly illustrated kaleidoscope of astral knowledge in Eurasia to experts and lay people alike. This book surveys how humans across Eurasia depicted their knowledge of the heavens over a period of nearly 4,000 years. Frequently focusing on enigmatic objects, the authors present a wide variety of objects - through text and pictures - from tombs, churches, temples, caves, museums, libraries and even a bathroom. Analyzing and contextualizing the Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Imagining the Heavens across Eurasia (Paperback)
- Author
- Rana Brentjes
- Publisher
- Mimesis International, MI
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 8869774244
- ISBN 13
- 9788869774249
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Sonja Brentjes is a historian of science with a focus on translations, maps, institutions, travellers, the sciences and the arts in Islamicate societies (8th–17th centuries), and medieval and early modern Christian Europe. Her recent publications include a volume on astral imagery in Eurasia co-edited with Dagmar Schäfer (NTM, 2020). In 2021 she received the Kenneth O. May Prize for the history of mathematics and in 2022 the Annemarie Schimmel Prize for Islamic Studies.
Stamatina Mastorakou is a historian of science working on the history of astral knowledge. She completed her PhD onHellenistic astronomy at Imperial College, London and has worked and taught in London, New York and Zurich. She is currently leading the research group 'Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens' in Department III of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Her recent publications include Aratus and the Popularization of Hellenistic Astronomy (Brill, 2020).
Dagmar Schäfer is a German-based sinologist and director of Department III at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Her monograph The Crafting of the 10,000 Things (UCP, 2011) won the History of Science Society: Pfizer Award in 2012 and the ASAS: Joseph Levenson Prize (Pre-1900) in 2013. In 2020 she was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. She is currently researching the historical dynamic of concept formation.
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