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The incomparable monsignor : Francesco Bianchini's world of science, history and court intrigue
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ISBN: 9780192856654 0192856650 Year: 2022 Publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University Press

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Monsignor Francesco Bianchini was an player in the political, scientific, and historical arenas of early modern Europe. Among his accomplishments were writing a universal history from the creation to the fall of Assyria; discovering, excavating, and interpreting ancient buildings; and designing a papal collection of antiquities that was later partially realized in the Vatican museums. He was also responsible for confirming and publicizing Newton's theories of light and color; discovering several comets; and building the the basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome.


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Cosmos and community in early medieval art
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ISBN: 9780300219166 0300219164 9780300228496 030022849X 0300247761 9780300247763 Year: 2017 Publisher: New Haven

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"In the rapidly changing world of the early Middle Ages, depictions of the cosmos represented a consistent point of reference across the three dominant states-the Frankish, Byzantine, and Islamic Empires. As these empires diverged from their Greco-Roman roots between 700 and 1000 A.D. and established distinctive medieval artistic traditions, cosmic imagery created a web of visual continuity, though local meanings of these images varied greatly. Benjamin Anderson uses thrones, tables, mantles, frescoes, and manuscripts to show how cosmological motifs informed relationships between individuals, especially the ruling elite, and communities, demonstrating how domestic and global politics informed the production and reception of these depictions. The first book to consider such imagery across the dramatically diverse cultures of Western Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic Middle East, [it] illuminates the distinctions between the cosmological art of these three cultural spheres, and reasserts the centrality of astronomical imagery to the study of art history"--Jacket flap.


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De Sitter : een alternatief voor Einsteins heelalmodel
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ISBN: 9789085711810 Year: 2009 Publisher: Amsterdam Natuurwetenschap & Techniek

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De Leidse sterrenkundige Willem de Sitter (1872-1934) was een van de invloedrijkste astronomen van zijn tijd. Hij berekende de gevolgen van Einsteins algemene relativiteitstheorie voor de astronomie. Hij leidde een alternatief model af voor het heelal, naast dat van Einstein. Men zal zich hem vooral herinneren als de man die samen met Einstein de grondslag legde voor de kosmologie : de fysische beschrijving van het heelal. (Bron: covertekst)


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Kepler : astronoom op zoek naar harmonie
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ISBN: 9789085711278 Year: 2007 Publisher: Amsterdam Natuur & Techniek

The lord of Uraniborg : a biography of Tycho Brahe
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ISBN: 0521351588 9780521351584 9780511665417 9780521033077 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

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