Introduction To Astronomy By Theodore Metochites Stoicheiosis Astronomike 15 30

Author : Paschos Emmanuel
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9813207507
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction To Astronomy By Theodore Metochites: Stoicheiosis Astronomike 1.5-30 written by Paschos Emmanuel and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stoicheiosis Astronomike ("Elements of Astronomy") is a late Byzantine comprehensive introduction to Astronomy. It was written by an outstanding figure in Byzantine culture and politics, who served also as prime minister. This volume makes available for the first time a large part of its astronomical contents, offering the original text with an English translation, accompanied by an introduction and analysis. This book describes the celestial spheres, the rotation of the planets, and especially the apparent trajectory of the sun with its uniform and anomalous rotations, which are used to determine the length of the year. Metochites proposed a new starting date for the calendar (6th of October 1283) specifying the position of the sun on that date. The work revived the interest in studies of Ptolemaic astronomy as attested by numerous annotations in the margins of the manuscripts. Besides its astronomical content there are statements on the epistemological method and other issues elucidating the spirit of that age. It will be of interest as an introduction to Byzantine astronomy for historians of science and philosophy, for astronomers, and those interested in the development of calendars.

Author : Emmanuel A. Paschos
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9789813207486
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Astronomy by Theodore Metochites written by Emmanuel A. Paschos and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description of the celestial spheres and their rotations -- Eccentric and epicyclic models -- The uniform and anomalous rotation of the sun; right and oblique ascensions -- Determining the time and culmination of the stars at various zones of the Earth -- The obliquity -- Description of the Greek/Roman and Egyptian calendars -- Proposal for revising the Julian calendar

Author : Ioannis Polemis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755651413
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theodore Metochites written by Ioannis Polemis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The statesman and scholar Theodore Metochites was one of the most important personalities of the fourteenth-century Byzantine Empire. A close advisor to the emperor Andronikos II and restorer of the famous monastery of Chora in Constantinople, Metochites left various writings including orations, poems, essays and commentaries on classical and religious texts, in which he discusses the numerous problems that troubled him and his contemporaries, such as the decline of the state and the tension between public life and that of the philosopher. In this book, Ioannis Polemis provides the first in-depth study of Metochites' oeuvre, revealing the complex way he represented the authorial self to critique the politics and mores of his day, whilst at the same time shielding himself from potential criticism. Polemis details the way Metochites deftly manipulated figures and tropes from classical antiquity and early Christianity to justify his role in public life, which was traditionally shunned by scholars in the pursuit of 'logos'. The book provides unique insights into one of the late Empire's most important figures, as well as more widely deepening our understanding of classical reception in Byzantium and the social, political and intellectual climate of Constantinople in the fourteenth century.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004527087
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Intellectual Life of the Palaeologan Period written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-11-14 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the scholarly interests of the intellectual elites during the last two centuries of Byzantium and the cultural environment in which they flourished, as well as the interaction between secular and church circles in Constantinople, Thessaloniki, Athos and beyond.

Author : Petros Bouras-Vallianatos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429892519
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring Greek Manuscripts in the Library at Wellcome Collection in London written by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers new insights into a largely understudied group of Greek texts preserved in selected manuscripts from the Library at Wellcome Collection, London. The content of these manuscripts ranges from medicine, including theories on diagnosis and treatment of disease, to astronomy, philosophy, and poetry. With texts dating from the ancient era to the Byzantine and Ottoman worlds, each manuscript provides its own unique story, opening a window onto different social and cultural milieus. All chapters are illustrated with black and white and colour figures, highlighting some of the most significant codices in the collection.

Author : Glenn A. Peers
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501775030
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Byzantine Media Subjects written by Glenn A. Peers and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byzantine Media Subjects invites readers into a world replete with images—icons, frescoes, and mosaics filling places of worship, politics, and community. Glenn Peers asks readers to think themselves into a world where representation reigned and humans followed, and indeed were formed. Interrogating the fundamental role of representation in the making of the Byzantine human, Peers argues that Byzantine culture was (already) posthuman. The Byzantine experience reveals the extent to which media like icons, manuscripts, music, animals, and mirrors fundamentally determine humans. In the Byzantine world, representation as such was deeply persuasive, even coercive; it had the power to affect human relationships, produce conflict, and form self-perception. Media studies has made its subject the modern world, but this book argues for media having made historical subjects. Here, it is shown that media long ago also made Byzantine humans, defining them, molding them, mediating their relationship to time, to nature, to God, and to themselves.

Author : Börje Bydén
Publisher : ACTA Universitatis Gothoburgensis
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theodore Metochites' Stoicheiosis Astronomike and the Study of Natural Philosophy and Mathematics in Early Palaiologan Byzantium written by Börje Bydén and published by ACTA Universitatis Gothoburgensis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--G'oteborg, 2003.

Author : Charalambos Dendrinos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110718499
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bibliophilos written by Charalambos Dendrinos and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is a Festschrift in honour of the distinguished Byzantinist Costas N. Constantinides. The title of the volume, Bibliophilos: Books and Learning in the Byzantine World, reflects Professor Constantinides’ major contribution to the fields of Greek palaeography, editions of Byzantine texts, Byzantine history, scholarship and education, and Cypriot manuscripts and culture. The volume is introduced by a preface and a tabula gratulatoria dedicated to the honorand, followed by twenty articles, written by seasoned and younger scholars, who are former colleagues and students of Professor Constantinides. These articles, which appear in alphabetical order, offer new material and shed fresh light to the study of Greek manuscripts, binders and scribes, and the life, works and activities of Byzantine scholars, teachers and students, providing editions of unpublished texts, including letters and poems, and exploring various aspects of Byzantine and Cypriot history, literature, art, science and culture. In the process the authors often challenge earlier views and offer new interpretations and insights. Bibliophilos is a book for the student, teacher and scholar of Byzantium in particular, and for every bibliophile in general.

Author : Denison Olmsted
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 233 pages
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Download or read book An Introduction to Astronomy written by Denison Olmsted and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Denison 1791-1859 Olmsted
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781372007149
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book INTRO TO ASTRONOMY written by Denison 1791-1859 Olmsted and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.