Stars, Mind & Fate - Essays in Ancient and Mediaeval Cosmology (Hardcover)

Published over a period of 20 years the essays collected together in this volume all relate to the lasting human preoccupation with cosmological matters and modern responses to them. The eclecticism of the typical medieval scholar might now seem astonishing, regrettable, amusing, or derisory, according to one's view of how rigid intellectual barriers should be. In Stars, Fate & Mind North argues that we will seriously misunderstand ancient and medieval thought if we are not prepared to share a willingness to look across such frontiers as those dividing astrology from ecclesiastical history, biblical chronology from astronomy, and angelic hierarchies from the planetary spheres, theology from the theory of the continuum, celestial laws from terrestrial, or the work of the clockmaker from the work of God himself, namely the universe. Surveying the work of such controversial scholars as Alexander Thom and Immanuel Velikovsky this varied volume brings together current scholarship on cosmology, and as the title suggest considers the confluence of matters of the stars, fate and the mind. The collection is accompanied by further commentary from the author and new illustrations.

General

Imprint:	Hambledon Continuum
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 1989
First published:	August 2003
Authors:	J.D. North
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	442
ISBN-13:	978-0-907628-94-1
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	English
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Cosmology & the universe Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
LSN:	0-907628-94-X
Barcode:	9780907628941

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