- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Renaissance and Astronomy
- Counter-Reformation and Cosmology
- Wider Uses of Meridiane
- 1. The Science of Easter
- The Luminaries and the Calendar
- A Scandal in the Church
- 2. A Sosigenes and His Caesars
- Florence
- Bologna
- Rome
- 3. Bononia Docet
- A New Oracle of Apollo
- Astronomia Reformata
- 4. Normal Science
- Perfecting the Parameters
- Repairs and Improvements
- 5. The Pope’s Gnomon
- Calendrical and Other Politics
- The Meridian in Michelangelo’s Church
- Meridiane and Meridians
- 6. The Accommodation of Copernicus
- Heliometry and Heliocentrism
- Protective Measures
- Book Banning
- 7. The Last Cathedral Observatories
- The Things Themselves
- Their Results
- Their Competitors
- 8. Time Telling
- Some Means of Conversion
- The Equation of Time
- More Light Play
- Appendices
- Abbreviations
- Works Cited
- Notes
- Credits
- Index
The Sun in the Church
Cathedrals as Solar Observatories
Product Details
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$34.50 • £30.95 • €31.95
ISBN 9780674005365
Publication Date: 04/02/2001
Awards & Accolades
- 2001 Pfizer Award, History of Science Society
- A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, 1999
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