Alessandro Piccolomini's Early Astronomical Works: II. an Examination of Their Scientific Content
暫譯: 阿萊桑德羅·皮科洛米尼的早期天文學著作：第二卷 科學內容的探討
Dekker, Elly
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2025-09-02
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- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 261
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- ISBN: 3031563328
- ISBN-13: 9783031563324
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商品描述
This book presents the first detailed scientific examination of Alessandro Piccolomini's two early astronomical works - De la Sfera del Mondo and De le Stelle Fisse. First published in Venice in 1540, the two treatises are amongst the earliest scientific texts written in the vernacular (Italian) and were specifically composed to make astronomical principles and practices available to a lay reader.
Whereas De la Sfera del Mondo is essentially an updated adaptation of the theoretical astronomical material contained in Sacrobosco's De Sphaera, this book examines his views on a number of key topics - such as precession, the motion of the solar apogee and the size and distance of the planets from Earth.
The author also presents a radical reassessment of De le Stelle Fisse, focusing on the innovative methods Piccolomini employed to create a viewer-centric approach for identifying the stars. As such, Piccolomini's guide to the heavens should be seen as a distant forerunner of the successful genre of elementary handbooks that were developed in the late 18th century, and which remain popular with amateur stargazers even in the 21st century.
The book also addresses how Piccolomini's treatises were used by contemporary astronomers by examining the manuscript notes that were left in various surviving copies of his books. It provides a convincing explanation of the unique directional notation on his stellar maps and assesses the relative accuracy of his stellar co-ordinates against contemporary and modern ephemerides and pictorial sources. It also argues that Piccolomini probably designed his distinctive series of maps of the constellations and the related Tables by using a celestial globe to compile his astronomical data. Finally, the author examines the series of refinements and corrections in the successive editions of Piccolomini's two treatises, thereby showing the extent to which his two early astronomical treatises remained an on-going enterprise for over 60 years.
This book is a companion volume to Alessandro Piccolomini's Early Astronomical Works: I. An Exploration of Their Cultural Significance by Kristen Lippincott in the same series. The two volumes are jointly available as print set with ISBN 978-3-031-76964-1.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
本書首次詳細科學地檢視亞歷山德羅·皮科洛米尼（Alessandro Piccolomini）的兩部早期天文學著作——《De la Sfera del Mondo》和《De le Stelle Fisse》。這兩部論文於1540年在威尼斯首次出版，是用白話文（意大利語）撰寫的最早科學文本之一，特別是為了讓一般讀者能夠理解天文學的原則和實踐。
《De la Sfera del Mondo》本質上是對薩克羅博斯科（Sacrobosco）的《De Sphaera》中理論天文學材料的更新改編，本書探討了他對多個關鍵主題的看法，例如歲差、太陽遠日點的運動以及行星與地球的大小和距離。
作者還對《De le Stelle Fisse》進行了徹底的重新評估，重點關注皮科洛米尼所採用的創新方法，以創建以觀察者為中心的星星識別方法。因此，皮科洛米尼的天文指南應被視為18世紀末成功的初學者手冊類型的遠古先驅，這些手冊在21世紀仍然受到業餘天文愛好者的喜愛。
本書還探討了皮科洛米尼的論文如何被當代天文學家使用，通過檢視留存在他書籍各個存世副本中的手稿筆記。它提供了對他星圖上獨特方向標記的有說服力的解釋，並評估了他的星座坐標相對於當代和現代天文年鑑及圖像資料的準確性。它還主張皮科洛米尼可能使用天球儀來編纂他的天文數據，設計了他獨特的星座地圖系列及相關表格。最後，作者檢視了皮科洛米尼兩部論文在後續版本中的一系列修訂和更正，從而顯示出他的兩部早期天文學著作在60多年內持續進行的程度。
本書是克里斯汀·利平科特（Kristen Lippincott）在同一系列中所著的《Alessandro Piccolomini's Early Astronomical Works: I. An Exploration of Their Cultural Significance》的伴隨卷。這兩卷書以印刷套裝形式共同發行，ISBN為978-3-031-76964-1。
作者簡介
Dr Elly Dekker is a Dutch astronomer and science historian, specialising in the history of astronomy. She studied theoretical physics at Utrecht University. In 1975, she obtained a PhD. in astronomy at Leiden University with the thesis Spiral structure and the dynamics of flat stellar systems supervised by Hendrik C. van de Hulst.
From 1978-88 she was curator at the Museum Boerhaave in Leiden. After 1988 she worked as an independent scholar on the history of astronomical models and instruments. From 1993-1995 she was Sackler fellow of the Royal Museums Greenwich. She was awarded the Caird Medal for her work on the museum's globe collection in 1998.
Her books include The Leiden Sphere. An exceptional seventeenth-century planetarium (Leiden, 1987); with Peter van der Krogt, Globes from the Western World (Zwemmer, London, 1993); Globes at Greenwich. A Catalogue of the Globes and Armillary Spheres in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich (Oxford, Greenwich, 1999); Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza: Catalogue of Orbs, Spheres and Globes (Florence, 2004); and Illustrating the Phaenomena: Celestial Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Oxford, 2013). Her papers comprise studies on the discovery of the southern celestial sky, on medieval astrolabes and quadrants, on Renaissance globes, and on the history of Renaissance celestial maps.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
艾莉·德克（Dr Elly Dekker）是一位荷蘭天文學家和科學歷史學家，專注於天文學的歷史。她在烏特勒支大學學習理論物理學。1975年，她在萊頓大學獲得天文學博士學位，論文題目為《螺旋結構與平面恆星系的動力學》（Spiral structure and the dynamics of flat stellar systems），指導教授為亨德里克·C·范德霍斯特（Hendrik C. van de Hulst）。
從1978年至1988年，她擔任萊頓博物館（Museum Boerhaave）的策展人。1988年後，她作為獨立學者研究天文模型和儀器的歷史。1993年至1995年，她是格林威治皇家博物館的薩克勒研究員（Sackler fellow）。1998年，她因在博物館的地球儀收藏方面的工作而獲得凱爾德獎章（Caird Medal）。
她的著作包括《萊頓球體：一個非凡的十七世紀天文館》（The Leiden Sphere. An exceptional seventeenth-century planetarium，萊頓，1987年）；與彼得·范德克羅赫特（Peter van der Krogt）合著的《來自西方世界的地球儀》（Globes from the Western World，倫敦，1993年）；《格林威治的地球儀：國家海事博物館的地球儀和圓環球目錄》（Globes at Greenwich. A Catalogue of the Globes and Armillary Spheres in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich，牛津，格林威治，1999年）；《科學歷史研究所與博物館：地球儀、球體和地球儀目錄》（Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza: Catalogue of Orbs, Spheres and Globes，佛羅倫斯，2004年）；以及《描繪現象：古代與中世紀的天文地圖》（Illustrating the Phaenomena: Celestial Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages，牛津，2013年）。她的論文包括對南天星空的發現、中世紀的天文儀和象限儀、文藝復興時期的地球儀以及文藝復興天文地圖歷史的研究。
