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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"cosmography"”.
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On the Evolution of the Heavenly Spheres: An Enactive Approach to Cosmography
… It develops an enactive approach to cosmography, contending that processes of visualizing and interpreting the cosmos iteratively shape ‘views’ of the ‘world.’ The archetypal trope of the heavenly sphere is examined to demonstrate the significance of its interpretations in this …
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Cosmographic Origins for a New Classicism
… values that are connected at their origin to a cosmography which is conceived within every given age. This large-scale conception of existence which encompasses all of what is known in the cosmos is a primary manifestation of every culture. Several systems of ideas are given by 20th century …
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The Sidereal Visions of Kant, Humboldt, and Einstein: An Introduction to German Cosmological Prose
… which is perhaps man's boldest fiction, i.e., cosmography. Germany's contribution to the modern version of this creative effort has been significant, beginning with Johannes Kepler and gaining mature vernacular expression with the Newtonian Allgemeine Naturgeschichte und Theorie des Himmels …
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A GUIDEWAY THROUGH THE LAND OF GHOSTS AND OTHER STORIES
… Hai Jing</em> is what Strassberg calls a “cosmography” and was intended to depict the world as ancient people saw it, rife with strange creatures and mythological figures that weren’t separated from human affairs by any clear boundary. Aligning with the cosmographical form and ethos, these …
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Line-of-sight effects on strong lensing time delays
… of the Hubble constant from time delay cosmography. We find that images of lensed extended sources are those from which precise measurements of line-of-sight shears are most likely to be obtained, but that lensed point source images and time delay data can serve as valuable constraints …
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Speak'st, Art Sound: The Material Voice in Early Modern England
… materialist theory, establishing a “posthuman cosmography” in which humans have no pride of place. The next two chapters refine and even challenge the writ-large generality of their predecessor. The second chapter, on The Alchemist, zooms in to the level of the individual, to explore what life …
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The Kingdom of Spain as an allegory of Christ's Kingdom in five autos by Calderón
… spiritual elements. These works illustrate the cosmography of the time and place of their conception. To uncover these autos' full meaning, it is necessary to interpret all other theatrical components in light of these works' primary topic: the Eucharist. Throughout El nuevo palacio del Retiro, …
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Mathematics and Late Elizabethan Drama, 1587-1603
… with the mathematical implications of Copernican cosmography and its Brunian atomistic extension, and offers a linkage between the social circles of Shakespeare and Thomas Harriot. Hamlet, it suggests, courts such ideas at the cutting-edge of contemporary science in order to complicate the …
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'And That Misformed Shape, Misshaped More': The Stranger Mathematics of 'The Faerie Queene'
… reshaped the Neoplatonist idea of poetry-as-cosmography into one of poetry-as-worldmaking. Emphasising how Plato’s Timaeus inspired the notion of a geometrically derived cosmos, it shows how humanist poets advanced an analogy between literary microcosm and mathematical cosmos: verse was …
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Oh, My Stars: A New Map of the Universe in Paradise Lost
<p>Milton’s geographical descriptions in <em>Paradise Lost</em> are heavily influenced by his fascination with maps. Furthermore, his design of the universe in <em>Paradise Lost</em> follows a cartographic style that has led to several attempts at mapping it. These attempts, however, have followed …
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The Mechanical Arts and Poiesis in the Philosophy and Literature of the Twelfth-Century Schools
The ‘mechanical arts’ or artes mechanicae were first named as a part of Philosophy in Hugh of Saint-Victor’s Didascalicon (1120s). They were identified as seven arts (fabric making, armament, commerce, agriculture, hunting, medicine, and theatrics), and positioned as a parallel to the seven liberal …