The diagram as paradigm : cross-cultural approaches / edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger, David J. Roxburgh, and Linda Safran.

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[2022]
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"This is the first book that looks at medieval diagrams in a cross-cultural perspective, focusing on three regions - Byzantium, the Islamicate world, and the Latin West - each culturally diverse and each closely linked to the others through complex processes of intellectual, artistic, diplomatic, and mercantile exchange. The volume unites case studies, often of little-known material, by an international set of specialists, and is prefaced by four introductory essays that provide broad overviews of diagrammatic traditions in these regions in addition to considering the theoretical dimensions of diagramming. Among the historical disciplines whose use of diagrams is explored are philosophy, theology, mysticism, music, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, and cosmology. Despite the sheer variety, ingenuity, and visual inventiveness of diagrams from the premodern world, in conception and practical use they often share many similarities, both in construction and application. Diagrams prove to be an essential part of the fabric of premodern intellectual, scientific, religious, artistic, and artisanal life"-- Provided by publisher.

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Washington, DC : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2022]

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563 pages : illustrations, color facsimiles ; 29 cm

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Chiefly papers presented at a conference held April 20-21, 2018, at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC.

Contents

General introduction: Medieval diagrams / Jeffrey F. Hamburger -- Overviews: Byzantine diagrams / Linda Safran -- Islamicate diagrams / David J. Roxburgh -- Western medieval diagrams / Jeffrey F. Hamburger -- Scientific diagrams: Between diagram and image: on Yuval's harp / Benjamin Anderson -- Byzantine-Islamic scientific culture in the astronomical diagrams of Chioniades on John of Damascus / Alexandre M. Roberts -- Space, place, diagram: Cleomedes and the visual program of Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod.gr. 482 / Divna Manolova -- Al-Ṣūfī's Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thābita (Book of forms of the fixed stars): between illustrated book, scientific instrument, and firmament / David J. Roxburgh -- Cosmological diagrams: A world of embedded spheres: circular planetary diagrams in late Byzantine manuscripts / Anne-Laurence Caudano -- Islamic cosmological diagrams / Sonja Brentjes -- Corporeal and spiritual celestial spheres and their visual figurations: from Abelard of Bath and Honorius to John of Sacrobosco and Michael Scot / Barbara Obrist -- Medical diagrams: Diagrams in Greek medical manuscripts / Petros Bouras-Vallianatos -- Proven recipes: geometry and the art of Arabic medicine / Meekyung Macmurdie -- Utility beyond function: practical and social uses of diagrams in late medieval English medical manuscripts / Sara Öberg Strådal -- Mathematical, philosophical, and theological diagrams: Grid space in Boethius's De institutione arithmetica / Megan C. McNamee -- Drawing conclusions: logic diagrams as a matrix for the making and meaning of Christian images in the Middle Ages / Jeffrey H. Hamburger -- Zweifalten's diagrammatic Scriptorium / Adam S. Cohen -- Diagramming Byzantine orthodoxy / Linda Safran -- The Prophet Muḥammad's ʹAyn seal: a Safavid-period diagram as cosmic vision / Christiane Gruber.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 9780884024866
  • 0884024865