Chapter Two. Macrobius’s Commentary On Scipio’s Dream: Its Carolingian Uses For Astronomy And Cosmology
Bruce S. Eastwood
A picture of the physical cosmos - earth, stellar sphere, and intermediate ordered planets appeared clearly for scholars Charlemagne’s day in Macrobius’s lengthy commentary on Cicero’s Somnium Scipionis. Macrobius described a concentric spheres, from central spherical earth up through seven to outermost, sphere. Three other diagrams by offer further elements cosmological order. These are: diagram emphasizing centrality earth; climatic regions zones circles celestial symmetrical with terrestrial zones. In commenting Dream Scipio, laid out broad spectrum philosophical, mythological, scientific doctrines. Carolingian generally made use discrimination, they even chose at times make it say what its author did not say.Keywords: scholars; Cicero; order; Scipio;
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