Trattato della sfera celeste : Sulla costruzione di una sfera aratea
- Submitting institution
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University of Edinburgh
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 100894717
- Type
- R - Scholarly edition
- DOI
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- Title of edition
- Trattato della sfera celeste
- Publisher
- Edizioni ETS
- ISBN
- 9788846753915
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book is an extended piece of scholarship generated through a lengthy and sustained research effort. It provides access to a complex and hitherto largely understudied scientific treatise, offering for the first time a reliable critical text (based on the autoptic exam of the manuscript source) and a translation in a modern language. The introduction and commentary, praised by a reviewer as “exceptionally wide-ranging”, required the collection and analysis of a large body of sources belonging to different literary genres, to reconstruct with critical insight the place of this text in the cultural and educational context of late antique Alexandria.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- This Greek astronomical text was previously available to scholars only in the 1898 edition by Ernst Maass and an 1821 French translation by Nicolas Halma. Both had serious problems in understanding the historical context and scientific content of Leontius’ treatise, and it remained virtually unknown. I offer a new edition of the text, contextualising its production within the philosophical school of Alexandria in the mid-sixth century AD. This provides key insights into the cultural history of late antiquity, especially concerning teaching activity in the school, and the relation between written and visual media in the transmission of scientific knowledge.