Writing the Heavens : Celestial Observation in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
In the Middle Ages and early modernity, celestial observation was frequently a subject for verbal rather than numerical and geometrical recording. These records can now be difficult to decode, since what they address is frequently obscured by formal conventions of genre, imagery, rhetoric, prosody,...
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De Gruyter
2024
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