Ordering the Heavens
Bruce S. Eastwood
The astronomy of the Carolingian era has commonly been represented as concerned exclusively with computus, science calendar construction well arithmetical calculation in general. This volume shows error that portrayal by exploring study and teaching four Roman texts on cosmology world diagrams connected to those texts. As each these works came into use over era, its contributions merged a progressively more ordered picture heavens. Both eccentrics epicycles appeared 840s. These techniques were subsequently introduced clearly qualitatively complete enterprise. primary tool for understanding this effort is analysis their diagrams. Medieval Early Modern Science, vol. 8