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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Format: | Book Part |
Language: | English |
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Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
2017
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Online Access: | https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/da/publications/7d66667e-3f93-4b45-9fde-36c8f85bfd44 |
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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