The diagram as paradigm : : cross-cultural approaches / / edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger, David J. Roxburgh, and Linda Safran.

"This is the first book that looks at medieval diagrams in a cross-cultural perspective, focusing on three regions-Byzantium, the Islamicate world, and the Latin West-each culturally diverse and each closely linked to the others through complex processes of intellectual, artistic, diplomatic, a...

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Superior document:Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine symposia and colloquia
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Place / Publishing House:Washington, District of Columbia : : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection,, [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine symposia and colloquia.
Physical Description:1 online resource (563 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • General introduction : medieval diagrams / Jeffrey F. Hamburger
  • Overviews. Byzantine diagrams / Linda Safran
  • Islamicate diagrams / David J. Roxburgh
  • Western medieval diagrams / Jeffrey F. Hamburger
  • Scientific diagrams. Between diagram and image : on Yuval's harp / Benjamin Anderson
  • Byzantine-Islamic scientific culture in the astronomical diagrams of Chioniades on John of Damascus / Alexandre M. Roberts
  • Space, place, diagram : Cleomedes and the visual program of Munich, Bayerische Staatsbiliothek, Cod.gr. 482 / Divna Manolova
  • Al-Ṣūfī's Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thābita (Book of forms of the fixed stars) : between illustrated book, scientific instrument, and firmament / David J. Roxburgh
  • Cosmological diagrams. A world of embedded spheres : circular planetary diagrams in late Byzantine manuscripts / Anne-Laurence Caudano
  • Islamic cosmological diagrams / Sonja Brentjes
  • Corporeal and spiritual celestial spheres and their visual figurations : from Abelard of Bath to Honorius to John of Sacrobosco and Michael Scot / Barbara Obrist
  • Medical diagrams. Diagrams in Greek medical manuscripts / Petros Bouras-Vallianatos
  • Proven recipes : geometry and the art of Arabic medicine / Meekyung Macmurdie
  • Utility beyond function : practical and social uses of diagrams in late medieval English medical manuscripts / Sara Öberg Strådal
  • Mathematical, philosophical, and theological diagrams. Grid space in Boethius's De institutione arithmetica / Megan C. McNamee
  • Drawing conclusions : logic diagrams as a matrix for the making and meaning of Christian images in the Middle Ages / Jeffrey H. Hamburger
  • Zweifalten's Diagrammatic scriptorium / Adam S. Cohen
  • Diagramming Byzantine orthodoxy / Linda Safran
  • The Prophet Muḥammad's ʻAyn Seal : a Safavid-period diagram as cosmic vision / Christiane Gruber.