Manipulating the sun : : picturing astronomical miracles from the Bible in the early modern era / / Julia Ellinghaus and Volker R. Remmert, editors.

• TeilnehmendeR: Ellinghaus, Julia,; Remmert, Volker R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : BRILL,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Nuncius Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

The Horologium Ahaz and Joshua stopping the sun in early modern printed material. Mathematical certainty and biblical inerrancy : Pedro Nunes and the retrogradation of shadows at the Dial of Ahaz / Henrique Leitão -- The Horologium Ahaz and Joshua stopping the sun on early modern scientific instruments. 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. Joshua stopping the sun in the Gesù : a hypothesis / Evonne Levy.