Creative Cosmologies in Late Gothic Bohemia: Illuminated Diagrams and Memory Tools for the Court of Wenceslas IV
Eric M. Ramírez-Weaver
This article focuses on an early fifteenth-century astrological anthology at the Bavarian State Library in Munich (Clm 826), whose sophisticated illustrations provided scientific information pictorial form to readers court of Wenceslas IV, King Bohemia and Romans. Bohemian artists created visual strategies for their astronomical diagrams that helped explicate movements heavenly bodies life earth tools remembering cosmological principles other ideas. The imaginative fashion which they were presented enhanced ability viewer remember what had been seen ideas by imagery.
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