Images in the Heavens: A Cultural Landscape
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | Images in the Heavens: A Cultural Landscape - The Imagined Sky |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Bernadette Brady; University of Wales Trinity St David; United Kingdom |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Cultural Studies; History; Art History; Astronomy; Astrology; Religious Studies ; Anthropology |
| 4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | Cosmology; culture, constellational imagery; sky; history of astronomy; cultural astronomy; celestial cartography. |
| 5. | Subject | Subject classification | Cultural History; History of Ideas |
| 6. | Description | Abstract | The constellation images with their historically persistent nature and adaptability fulfil many contemporary definitions of culture. From the earliest Elamite seals of the fourth millennium to the list-maps in the first century CE through Ptolemy’s Almagest, the constellation images became established in Western cultures. With the invention of printing and the age of the great star atlases from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, the constellation images continued to display cultural resistance by cartographers to Gothicise, Christianise, politicise, or simply remove them. This resilience has shown that the constellation images are in fact a living gallery of human history with images ranging from the Palaeolithic to the modern world. Furthermore, with their acceptance across a diversity of people and nations, the constellation images today have come to represent a form of world culture, in that they constitute a culture of humanity that is not linked by tribes, clans, nations, religions, or languages. |
| 7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
| 8. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | |
| 9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 15-Jun-2016 |
| 10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
| 11. | Type | Type | Historical Inquiry |
| 12. | Format | File format | |
| 13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/22672 |
| 14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.22672 |
| 15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; The Imagined Sky |
| 16. | Language | English=en | En |
| 18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
Europe, palaeolithic to contemporary |
| 19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |