When astronomers hunt for the remnants of ancient stellar explosions, they increasingly find themselves reading the night sky through the eyes of medieval scholars. Arabic chronicles, astronomical ...

Medieval chronicles occasionally recorded unusual astronomical events that puzzled observers of the time. One account describes a night when witnesses claimed the moon appeared to split in two. Such ...

In medieval and Renaissance society and culture, celestial events were not mere spectacles in the sky. Rather, they were omens, predictors of the future, and windows into the workings of the universe.

Edited and translated, with an astronomical commentary, by Bernard R. Goldstein. (Yale Studies in the History of Science and Medicine, 2.) Pp. x + 408. (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, ...

DANTE'S cosmological ideas and his exposition of medieval astronomical knowledge have been discussed by several of the numerous commentators of his writings. It is, however, useful to have them ...

Every summer, the Getty Center has given free rein to a lineup of artists to transform the museum’s architecture, gardens, and exhibitions as part of its long-running Friday Flights performance series ...

A rare astronomy tool that helped medieval scientists tell time will remain in Britain after the British Museum scrambled to come up with the money to buy it. The brass device, called an astrolabe ...

LONDON — A rare astronomy tool that helped medieval scientists tell time will remain in Britain after the British Museum scrambled to come up with the money to buy it. The brass device, called an ...