Abstract
The relationship between the development of astronomy and the Great Navigations is a classic subject of the history of science and the history of the European expansion in the 15th and 16th centuries. Most of these studies, however, due to their effort to emphasize the particularities of that time, have relegated to a few notes the possible links between long-distance travels and the knowledge of the stars that preceded the so-called “Age of Discovery”. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the connections between the cosmological theories and the intercontinental expeditions prior to the aforementioned Navigations, between the 13th and 14th centuries. At that time, a growing production and translation of astronomical treatises coincided with the undertaking of a series of travels to the Far East. To do so, these treatises will be examined together with reports by those travellers in order to better understand the relationships between the development of astronomy and the new questions about the geographical “world images” that were posed to these people. In this sense, these texts will be approached from two different points of view: on the one hand, in an attempt to understand to what extent geography defined the information extracted from the motion of the heavens and, on the other, in an attempt to assess how travel reports relied an astronomical knowledge to elaborate a description of the Orient and its people. Keywords: travel accounts, astronomy, Mongol Empire, Middle Ages.
Highlights
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The relationship between the development of astronomy and the Great Navigations is a classic subject of the history of science and the history of the European expansion in the 15th and 16th centuries
Due to their effort to emphasize the particularities of that time, have relegated to a few notes the possible links between long-distance travels and the knowledge of the stars that preceded the so-called “Age of Discovery”
Summary
Já no século XIII, escritos sobre a relatos de viagem, propomo-nos, nas páginas apresentadas astrologia foram compilados em língua vernácula, como o a seguir, a entender como esses homens dos séculos XIII e espanhol, sob os auspícios da corte castelhana de Afonso. Esta corte reuniu cosmos às observações das terras e dos homens encontrados uma série de letrados que se dedicaram a traduzir e divulno oriente.Procuraremos,desse modo,interpelar esses textos gar manuscritos em árabe e grego que ensinavam diversas partindo de dois pontos distintos, isto é, se, por um lado, artes, consideradas virtuosas para a vida do cristão no visaremos entender em que medida a geografia balizou o que século XIII, dentre elas, a astronomia. A efetividade e a legitimidade das informações extraídas do movimento dos corpos celestes também foram debatidas por esses viajantes a partir de certos sábios encontrados na corte mongol, detentores de informações sobre os astros que lhes permitiam aproveitar suas melhores influências e a evitar suas agruras. Diversos desses escritos tratavam como parte da astronomia – uma das artes liberais e,
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