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Astronomies and Cultures in Early Medieval Europe

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 | #3811484 in Books |  Cambridge University Press |  1998-01-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.98 x.67 x5.98l,1.15 | File type: PDF | 252 pages

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||4 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| HIGH church in the Sky|By Patricia A. Bunner|Best discourse on how we have culturally arrived at both arbitrary and practical concepts on time; this book needs to be read in conjunction with Stephen Hawking's Brief History of Time. McCluskey shows the theological underpinnings for the division of days into practical sub units and their relationship to theology and mathematics.| |"McCluskey gives an interesting and informative survey...this is an interesting volume, and a work of considerable expertise." R.N. Swanson, International Journal of the Classical Tradition

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Historians have long recognized that the rebirth of science in twelfth-century Europe flowed from a search for ancient scientific texts. But this search presupposes knowledge and interest; we only seek what we know to be valuable. The emergence of scholarly interest after centuries of apparent stagnation seems paradoxical. This book resolves that seeming contradiction by describing four active traditions of early medieval astronomy: one divided the year by observing t...

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