Volume 28, issue 3, September 2020

Special Issue: Imagining the Heavens. Historiographical Challenges and Eurasian Perspectives

Issue editors

Sonja Brentjes
Dagmar Schäfer

8 articles in this issue

Visualizations of the Heavens Before 1700 as a Concern of the History of Science, Medicine and Technology

Authors
- Sonja Brentjes
- Dagmar Schäfer
- Content type: Editorial
- Open Access
- Published: 06 July 2020
- Pages: 295 - 304
How Can We Incorporate Visual Evidence into the History of the Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia?

Authors
- John Steele
- Content type: Artikel/Articles
- Published: 06 April 2020
- Pages: 305 - 324
Reflections on Visual and Material Sources for the History of the Exact Sciences in Early Imperial China

Authors
- Daniel Patrick Morgan
- Content type: Artikel/Articles
- Published: 09 June 2020
- Pages: 325 - 357
The Conceptual Image of the Planets in Ancient Iran and the Process of Their Demonization: Visual Materials and Models of Inclusion and Exclusion in Iranian History of Knowledge

Authors
- Antonio Panaino
- Content type: Artikel/Articles
- Published: 04 June 2020
- Pages: 359 - 389
The Sun in Stone—Early Anthropomorphic Imagery of Sūrya in North India

Authors
- Marion Frenger
- Content type: Artikel/Articles
- Published: 09 July 2020
- Pages: 391 - 410
Transmission of the “World”: Sumeru Cosmology as Seen in Central Asian Buddhist Paintings Around 500 AD

Authors
- Satomi Hiyama
- Content type: Artikel/Articles
- Published: 05 June 2020
- Pages: 411 - 429
Heavenly Bodies, Celestial Phenomena and Calendrical Data in Tamil Epigraphical Inscriptions (Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries)

Authors
- Venkateswaran T. V.
- Content type: Artikel/Articles
- Published: 06 April 2020
- Pages: 431 - 449
The Astronomical Images in the First Chinese Treatise on the Telescope by Johann Adam Schall von Bell Revisited

Authors
- Yunli Shi
- Content type: Artikel/Articles
- Published: 30 June 2020
- Pages: 451 - 479