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Aratus and the astronomical tradition

by Emma Gee

This study examines the influence of Aratus' poem Phaenomena on Western cosmology from the Roman Republic to the sixteenth century. It analyses the integration of astronomical data into abstract thought and the poem's role in representing divine and human order.

Accession 12134 ISBN 9780199781683 Publisher Oxford University Press
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