The Sun’s Companions:The Heliocentric Orbits of Mercury and Venus

This article presents a facsimile, text, and commentary on a diagram in a fourteenth-century Icelandic manuscript, which shows a medieval theory about the geo-heliocentric orbits of the inferior planets, Mercury and Venus. The article examines the diagram's inscribed contents to think about Lat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kedwards, Dale
Other Authors: Müller-Wille, Klaus, Heslop, Kate, Richter, Anna Katharina, Rösli, Lukas
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag 2017
Subjects:
Medieval Science
Planets
Encyclopaedias
Intellectual History
Visual Culture
Venus
Iceland
Online Access:https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/da/publications/7d66667e-3f93-4b45-9fde-36c8f85bfd44
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Summary:This article presents a facsimile, text, and commentary on a diagram in a fourteenth-century Icelandic manuscript, which shows a medieval theory about the geo-heliocentric orbits of the inferior planets, Mercury and Venus. The article examines the diagram's inscribed contents to think about Latin-Old Norse translation, and the nature of encyclopaedism in later medieval Iceland.

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