Manipulating the Sun

Julia Ellinghaus, Ph.D. (2006), art historian with a focus on iconography and Northern European art of the 17th and 18th century. Since 2018 she is research assistant at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Science and Technology Studies (IZWT) at the University of Wuppertal. Volker R. Remmert, Ph.D. (1997), studied history and mathematics. He teaches history of science and technology at the University of Wuppertal and has been director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Science and Technology Studies (IZWT) since 2011. His research interests are in the history of early modern science and in the history of mathematics in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Notes on Contributors


Introduction

  Julia Ellinghaus and Volker Remmert



Part 1

The Horologium Ahaz and Joshua Stopping the Sun in Early Modern Printed Material

1 The Prayer of Joshua and the Dial of Ahaz Paratactic Scriptural Illustration in the Lempereur, Vorsterman, and Van Liesveldt Bibles

  Walter S. Melion



2 Mathematical Certainty and Biblical Inerrancy Pedro Nunes and the Retrogradation of Shadows at the Dial of Ahaz

  Henrique Leitão



3 Appealing to Ahaz The Jesuits and the Sundial of Ahaz in the Era of Copernican Astronomy

  Brent Purkaple



Part 2

The Horologium Ahaz and Joshua Stopping the Sun on Early Modern Scientific Instruments

4 Turning Back the Sun Christoph Schissler’s ‘Horologium Ahaz’ as ‘Kunststück’

  Andrew Morrall



5 Manipulating the Sun in Depictions on Early Modern Scientific Instruments An Iconographic Study

  Julia Ellinghaus and Volker Remmert



Part 3

The Horologium Ahaz and Joshua Stopping the Sun in Art and Architecture in Specific Locations

6 Stairway to Heaven The Marvellous Staircases of the Medici Villa at Pratolino

  Denis Ribouillault



7 Joshua Stopping the Sun in the Gesù A Hypothesis

  Evonne Levy



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