Adam Mosley
Biographic Data
| ID | 5649804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Mosley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Mosley |
| SIGNATURE | MOSLEY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swansea University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Setting Aside All Authority
Setting Aside All Authority: Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the Science against Copernicus in the Age of Galileo. Christopher M. Graney. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015. xvi + 270 pp. $29. - Volume 69 Issue 2
Sacred Words and Worlds
Zur Shalev's Sacred Words and Worlds is a study of a kind of early modern scholarship little known to most historians of science: sacred geography. Yet it stands as a corrective to a more familiar ...
Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Pamela H. Smith and Benjamin Schmidt, eds. Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400–1800. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008. xii + 336 pp. index. illus. $28. ISBN: 978–0–226–76329–3. - Volume 63 Issue 2
Travellers and Cosmographers
Joan‐Pau Rubies, Variorum Collected Studies (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), xiv + 428 pp., £75.00 (hb), ISBN: 978‐0‐7546‐5936‐5 Readers will be familiar with Ashgate’s Variorum Collected Studies series
Objects, texts and images in the history of science
Widmung, Welterklärung und Wissenschaftslegitimierung
Volker Remmert. Widmung, Welterklärung und Wissenschaftslegitimierung: Titelbilder und ihre Funktionen in der Wissenschaftlichen Revolution. Wolfenbütteler Forschungen 110. Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005. 268 pp. index.illus. bibl. €89. ISBN: 3-447-05337-2. - Volume 60 Issue 4
Epistulae, Part 6, 1577-1580
John Donne's Verdict on Tycho Brahe
Bearing the Heavens
Adam Mosley's new book on Tycho Brahe's astronomical work takes its title from the figure of the mythological Atlas as coelifer: bearer of the heavens.This image of Atlas supporting the celestial spheres on his shoulders was a common symbol of astronomy, appearing in the frontispieces of books, in dedicatory prefaces and poems, and as decoration on astronomical instruments-including Brahe's great equatorial armillary at Uraniborg.Brahe and his co…
Historical reporting in the Ancient World
When people living in Palestine, Asia Minor, Greece and Rome in the first century A.D. were given reports of events which had happened in the past, were they concerned to ask the question: ‘Did it happen in this way?’
Jesus' Audiences in the Gospels of St Mark and St Luke
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Objects, texts and images in the history of science
Travellers and Cosmographers
Joan‐Pau Rubies, Variorum Collected Studies (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), xiv + 428 pp., £75.00 (hb), ISBN: 978‐0‐7546‐5936‐5 Readers will be familiar with Ashgate’s Variorum Collected Studies series
Jesus' Audiences in the Gospels of St Mark and St Luke
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Historical reporting in the Ancient World
When people living in Palestine, Asia Minor, Greece and Rome in the first century A.D. were given reports of events which had happened in the past, were they concerned to ask the question: ‘Did it happen in this way?’
Bearing the Heavens
Adam Mosley's new book on Tycho Brahe's astronomical work takes its title from the figure of the mythological Atlas as coelifer: bearer of the heavens.This image of Atlas supporting the celestial spheres on his shoulders was a common symbol of astronomy, appearing in the frontispieces of books, in dedicatory prefaces and poems, and as decoration on astronomical instruments-including Brahe's great equatorial armillary at Uraniborg.Brahe and his co…
John Donne's Verdict on Tycho Brahe
Epistulae, Part 6, 1577-1580
Objects, texts and images in the history of science
Widmung, Welterklärung und Wissenschaftslegitimierung
Volker Remmert. Widmung, Welterklärung und Wissenschaftslegitimierung: Titelbilder und ihre Funktionen in der Wissenschaftlichen Revolution. Wolfenbütteler Forschungen 110. Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005. 268 pp. index.illus. bibl. €89. ISBN: 3-447-05337-2. - Volume 60 Issue 4
Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Pamela H. Smith and Benjamin Schmidt, eds. Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400–1800. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008. xii + 336 pp. index. illus. $28. ISBN: 978–0–226–76329–3. - Volume 63 Issue 2
Travellers and Cosmographers
Joan‐Pau Rubies, Variorum Collected Studies (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), xiv + 428 pp., £75.00 (hb), ISBN: 978‐0‐7546‐5936‐5 Readers will be familiar with Ashgate’s Variorum Collected Studies series
Sacred Words and Worlds
Zur Shalev's Sacred Words and Worlds is a study of a kind of early modern scholarship little known to most historians of science: sacred geography. Yet it stands as a corrective to a more familiar ...
Setting Aside All Authority
Setting Aside All Authority: Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the Science against Copernicus in the Age of Galileo. Christopher M. Graney. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015. xvi + 270 pp. $29. - Volume 69 Issue 2
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