Bibliography and Further Reading

Sources Analyzed 

  • Adelard of Bath. “De eodem et Diverso.” In L’identico e il diverso = De eodem et diverso, edited by Armando Bisanti and Pietro Palmeri. Machina philosophorum 12. Palermo: Officina di studi medievali, 2014. ISBN lookup.
  • Al-Bitruji. “De Motibus Celorum.” In Al-Bitruji De Motibus Celorum, edited by Francis J. Carmody, translated by Michael Scot, 71–150. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1952.
  • Grosseteste, Robert. “De Cometis.” In Moti, virtù e motori celesti nella cosmologia di Roberto Grossatesta : studio ed edizione dei trattati De sphera, De cometis, De motu supercelestium, edited by Cecilia Panti. Testi e studi per il “Corpus philosophorum Medii Aevi” 16. Firenze: SISMEL, 2001. ISBN lookup.
  • ———. “De Motu Supercelestiam.” In Moti, virtù e motori celesti nella cosmologia di Roberto Grossatesta : studio ed edizione dei trattati De sphera, De cometis, De motu supercelestium, edited by Cecilia Panti. Testi e studi per il “Corpus philosophorum Medii Aevi” 16. Firenze: SISMEL, 2001. ISBN lookup.
  • ———. “De Sphaera.” In Moti, virtù e motori celesti nella cosmologia di Roberto Grossatesta : studio ed edizione dei trattati De sphera, De cometis, De motu supercelestium, edited by Cecilia Panti. Testi e studi per il “Corpus philosophorum Medii Aevi” 16. Firenze: SISMEL, 2001. ISBN lookup.
  • Hermes Trismegestus. “Liber Stellis Beibeniis.” In Hermes Latinus: Astrologica et Divinatoria, edited by Paul Kunitzsch, 9–87. Corpus Christianorum: Continvatio Mediaevalis 144. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2001. ISBN lookup.
  • Hugh of Saint Victor. “Epitome Dindimi In Philosophiam.” In Hugonis de Sancto Victore Opera Propaedeutica, edited by Roger Baron, 186–207. Notre Dame: Notre Dame Press, 1966. ISBN lookup.
  • ———. “Practica Geometriae.” In Hugonis de Sancto Victore Opera Propaedeutica, edited by Roger Baron, 186–207. Notre Dame: Notre Dame Press, 1966. ISBN lookup.
  • Hugh of Santalla. “Fragmentum Pseudo-Aristotelicum (Hugo Santallensis).” In Hermes Latinus: Astrologica et Divinatoria, edited by Charles Burnett and David Pingree, 101–7. Corpus Christianorum: Continvatio Mediaevalis 144. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2001. ISBN lookup.
  • Neckam, Alexander. “Suppletio Defectuum II.” In Alexandri Neckam Suppletio Defectuum Carmina Minora, edited by Peter Hochgurtel, 105–91. Corpus Christianorum: Continuatio Medievalis 221. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2008. ISBN lookup.
  • Pierre d’Ailly. Ymago mundi. Vol. 1. Paris: Maisonneuve frères, 1930. ISBN lookup.
  • Sacrobosco, Iohannes de. “Tractatus de Sphaera.” In Iohannes de Sacro Bosco Tractatus de Sphaera, 1478.

Methodological and Operational Sources

Frederick W. Gibbs and Trevor J. Owens, “The Hermeneutics of Data and Historical Writing”, in: “Writing History in the Digital Age”, 2012.

Jonathan Goodwin and John Holbo, ed. Reading Graphs, Maps, Trees: Responses to Franco Moretti.  Anderson, South Carolina: Parlor Press, 2011.

Martin Kalfatovic, “Chapter 1: Online Exhibitions Versus Digital Collections”, in: Creating a Winning Online Exhibition: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums, 2002.

Stephen Marche, "Literature is not Data: Against Digital Humanities", in: Los Angeles Review of Books, 2012.

Franco Moretti. Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History. New York: Verso, 2005 on Google Books.

Susan Prosser and Stuart Gripman. FileMaker Pro 13: The Missing Manual. San Francisco: O'Reilly Media, 2014.  

Stephen Robinson, “The Differences between Digital History and Digital Humanities.” Dr. Stephen Robertson, May 2014. http://drstephenrobertson.com/blog-post/the-differences-between-digital-history-and-digital-humanities/.

Holger Syme and Scott Selisker, "In Defense of Data: Responses to Stephen Marche's 'Literature is not Data'", in: Los Angeles Review of Books, 2012.

Further Reading

Dales, Richard C. The Scientific Achievement of the Middle Ages. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1973 on Google Books. ISBN lookup.

———.  “Robert Grossetese’s Views on Astrology.” Mediaeval Studies 29 (1967): 357–63. ISSN lookup.

Grafton, Anthony. Cardano’s Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer. Harvard University Press, 1999 on Google Books. ISBN lookup.

Grant, Edward.  Planets, Stars, and Orbs: The Medieval Cosmos, 1200-1687. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996 on Google Books. ISBN lookup.  

Hasse, Dag Nikolaus. “Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on the Latin West.” In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward N. Zalta, Fall 2014.

Lemay, Richard. “The Teaching of Astronomy in Medieval Universities, Principally in Paris in the Fourteenth Century.” Manuscripta, n.d., 197–217.

Lipton, Joshua. The Rational Evaluation of Astrology in the Period of Arabo-Latin Translation Ca. 1126-1187 A.D. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Dissertation Information Service, 1990 on Google Books.

McCluskey, Stephen C. Astronomies and Cultures in Early Medieval Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2000 on Google Books.  ISBN lookup.  McClusky paints this approach as an attempt to correct historiographical bias towards mathematical astronomy.

Morrison, Robert. “Falsafa and Astronomy After Avicenna - An Evolving Relationship.” In Avicenna and His Legacy, edited by Y. Tzvi Langermann, 8:307–26. Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2010 on Google Books.  ISBN lookup.

Neugebauer, Otto. “The Study of Wretched Subjects.” Isis 42, no. 2 (1951): 111. ISSN lookup.

North, John. “Astronomy and Astrology.” In The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 2, Medieval Science, edited by David C. Lindberg and Michael Shank. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. ISBN lookup.

———. “Medieval Concepts of Celestial Influence: A Survey.” In Astrology, Science and Society: Historical Essays, 5–18, 1987 on Google Books. ISBN lookup.
 
———. The Norton History of Astronomy and Cosmology. W W Norton & Company Incorporated, 1994 on Google Books.  ISBN lookup.  

Sarton, George. ‘Review of E. S. Drower’s Mandean "Book of the Zodiac",’ Isis 4I (1950): p. 374.

Sela, Shlomo. “The Fuzzy Borders between Astronomy and Astrology in the Thought and Work of Three Twelfth-Century Jewish Intellectuals.” Aleph, no. 1 (January 1, 2001): 59–100.

Thorndike, Lynn. “The True Place of Astrology in the History of Science.” Isis 46, no. 3 (1955): 275-278.

Westman, Robert S. The Copernican Question : Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011 on Google Books.  ISBN lookup.

Zambelli, Paola. The Speculum Astronomiae and its Enigma.  Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1992 on Google Books. ISBN lookup.

by Allyssa Metzger