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Zusatztext "[A] wonderful book that richly repays close reading." ---James Evans, ISIS Informationen zum Autor Jed Z. Buchwald is the Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology. His books include The Creation of Scientific Effects: Heinrich Hertz and Electric Waves . Diane Greco Josefowicz teaches in the writing program at Boston University. Klappentext "This book makes a major contribution to European scientific! intellectual! and cultural history. Buchwald and Josefowicz have wrested from oblivion a subject that no previous author! French or English! has analyzed in this form or breadth. "The Zodiac of Paris" not only embodies interdisciplinarity at its very best! but also exposes the nineteenth-century roots of many concerns of the twenty-first century."--Darius A. Spieth! author of "Napoleon's Sorcerers: The Sophisians""This is an important book about an exciting topic. By tackling a subject that has largely been forgotten about--the role technical science could play in religious debates--Buchwald and Josefowicz open up new avenues for understanding eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science. "The Zodiac of Paris" provides fascinating insights into the wide-ranging debates in Napoleonic and Restoration France."--John Steele! Brown University Zusammenfassung The Dendera zodiac - an ancient bas-relief temple ceiling adorned with mysterious symbols of the stars and planets - was first discovered by the French during Napoleon's campaign in Egypt, and quickly provoked a controversy between scientists and theologians. This title tells the story of this incredible archeological find. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1 Chapter 1: All This for Two Stones? 9 Chapter 2: Antiquity Imagined 28 Chapter 3: The Origin of All Religions 47 Chapter 4: On Napoleon's Expedition 70 Chapter 5: One Drawing! Many Words 99 Chapter 6: The Dawn of the Zodiac Controversies 116 Chapter 7: Ancient Skies! Censored 146 Chapter 8: Egypt Captured in Ink and Porcelain 175 Chapter 9: Egyptian Stars under Paris Skies 222 Chapter 10: The Zodiac Debates 268 Chapter 11: Champollion's Cartouche 312 Chapter 12: Epilogue 334 Acknowledgments 341 Notes 343 Bibliography 379 Figure Sources 407 Subject Index 413 Name Index 419 ...
