Output details
31 - Classics
University of St Andrews
Book title
Aratus and the Astronomical Tradition
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Oxford University Press
ISBN of book
978-0-19-978168-3
Year of publication
2013
URL
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Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
A highly innovative and wide-ranging reappraisal of the importance of Aratus’s text in both Hellenistic astronomy and the longer-term development of western cosmology. Deals with materials over two millennia from Hellenistic Greece to Copernicus and the early modern period. Also textually extensive, drawing on many different genres, ancient and early modern, across this period (including poetry, philosophy, scholastic traditions, scholarship and science). Involved substantial collection and compilation of data (including appendix B) and makes available a large amount of material which was previously not readily accessible.
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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