Manipulating the sun : : picturing astronomical miracles from the Bible in the early modern era / / Julia Ellinghaus and Volker R. Remmert, editors.
"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-Cope...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : BRILL,, 2023. |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Nuncius Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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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.