Environmental Legacies of the Copernican Universe

This book re-envisions the cosmos with the holistic, spherical imagination of the Middle Ages, figured in circles, cycles, epicycles, equants, and offers a new perspective on the power of images and metaphors to shape the way humans see the universe and their own role in it.

List of contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface: 'Till by Turning, Turning We Come Round Right
Introduction: Cosmology, Ecology
Chapter 1: Dante's Cosmos
Chapter 2: Enlightenment Echoes
Chapter 3: The Infinite Line
Chapter 4: Environmental Legacies
Chapter 5: Paradigm Shifts
Chapter 6: Alternate Metaphors
Conclusions
References
Index
About the Author

About the author

Jean-Marie Kauth is a member of APHA's Children's Environmental Health Committee of the Environment Section, UCSF's Science Action Network (SAN), and the Childhood Cancer Prevention Initiative (CCPI) and was recently appointed to the Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee (CHPAC), a Federal Advisory Committee to the EPA.

Summary

This book re-envisions the cosmos with the holistic, spherical imagination of the Middle Ages, figured in circles, cycles, epicycles, equants, and offers a new perspective on the power of images and metaphors to shape the way humans see the universe and their own role in it.

Product details

• Authors: Jean-Marie Kauth, Kauth Jean-Marie
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2023
• EAN: 9781666901849
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-184-9
• No. of pages: 278
• Series: Environment and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Conservation of the environment, Cosmology & the universe, Cosmology and the universe, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval