Introduction -- Macrobius's Commentary on Scipio's dream : its Carolingian uses for astronomy and cosmology -- Pliny the Elder's Natural history : encyclopedia for Carolingian astronomy and cosmology -- Martianus Capella's synopsis of astronomy in The marriage of philology and Mercury and its major Carolingian commentaries -- Using Calcidius's Commentarius in Carolingian astronomy -- Carolingian diagrams for astronomy and cosmology
Summary
Based on scores of medieval manuscript texts and diagrams, this book shows how Roman sources were used in the age of Charlemagne to reintroduce and expand a qualitative picture of articulated geometrical order in the heavens
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-446) and index
