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• Title:[De natura rerum liber. English]
  On the nature of things / Isidore of Seville ; translated with introduction, notes, and commentary by Calvin B. Kendall and Faith Wallis.
  
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• Author/Creator:Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Kendall, Calvin B., translator, editor.
  Wallis, Faith, translator, editor.
  
• Published/Created:Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2016.
  ©2016
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PA6445.I3 D413 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Meteorology--Early works to 1800.
  Astronomy--Early works to 1800.
  
• Description:xiv, 313 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  
• Series:Translated texts for historians ; v. 66.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-297) and indexes.
  Translated from the Latin.
  
• ISBN:178138293X hardcover
  9781781382936 hardcover
  1781382948 paperback
  9781781382943 paperback
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Isidore's Life, Times, and Writings
  Education
  Grammar as a principle of knowledge
  Church discipline and biblical exegesis
  2. On the Nature of Things in Context
  Structure
  Occasion
  Purposes and preoccupations
  Appeal to reason
  Wider ends: a Christianized erudition?
  3. Work of Composite Construction
  Text and image
  Fontaine's theory of three recensions
  Single or multiple authorship?
  short recension: two types
  medium recension
  Three Spanish interpolations?
  long recension: chapter 44(
  ) and the mystical addition
  4. Out of Spain and into the Future
  Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England
  Traffic between Spain and Italy
  Gaul
  Germany and Switzerland: the Zofingen metamorphosis
  From the Carolingian period to the age of print
  5. Inventory of Manuscripts and Editions of Isidore's On the Nature of Things
  Manuscripts of Isidore's De natura rerum
  Editions of Isidore's De natura rerum
  6. Principles Governing this Translation
  Text
  Isidore of Seville, On the Nature of Things
  Preface: Isidore, to his Lord and Son, Sisebut
  List of Chapters
  1. Days
  2. Night
  3. Week
  4. Months
  5. Concordance of the Months
  6. Years
  7. Seasons
  8. Solstice and the Equinox
  9. World
  10. Five Circles of the World
  11. Parts of the World
  12. Heaven and Its Name
  13. Seven Planets of Heaven and Their Revolutions
  14. Heavenly Waters
  15. Nature of the Sun
  16. Size of the Sun and the Moon
  17. Course of the Sun
  18. Light of the Moon
  19. Course of the Moon
  20. Eclipse of the Sun
  21. Eclipse of the Moon
  22. Course of the Stars
  23. Position of the Seven Wandering Stars
  24. Light of the Stars
  25. Fall of the Stars
  26. Names of the Stars
  27. Whether the Stars have a Soul
  28. Night
  29. Thunder
  30. Lightning
  31. Rainbow
  32. Clouds
  33. Rains
  34. Snow
  35. Hail
  36. Nature of the Winds
  37. Names of the Winds
  38. Signs of Storms or Fair Weather
  39. Pestilence
  40. Ocean's Tide
  41. Why the Sea Does Not Grow in Size
  42. Why the Sea has Bitter Waters
  43. River Nile
  44. Names of the Sea and the Rivers
  45. Position of the Earth
  46. Earthquake
  47. Mount Etna
  48. Parts of the Earth
  Commentary
  Appendices
  1. Verse Epistle of King Sisebut
  2. Introductory Formulas for the Diagram of the Winds (Diagram 7) in Chapter 37
  3. Extracts from Chapter 37 arranged within the Diagram of the Winds
  4. Poem of the Winds
  5. Textual Insertions in Chapter 48 and T-O Map
  6. Zofingen and English Types of the Long Recension.