North J.D. Stars, Minds and Fate: Essays in Ancient and Medieval Cosmology

Hambledon Press, 1989. - 429 pp.
The historical essays collected together in this book are all in some way related to a lasting human preoccupation with cosmological matters.The Attractions of Past Science.
Moon and Megaliths.
By Direction from Above.
Neolithic Newtons.
Venus, By Jupiter!
On the Trail of the Comet.
The Culmination of Ptolemy.
Astrology and the Fortunes of Churches.
Chronology and the Age of the World.
Between Experience and Experiment.
Opus quarundam rotarum mirabilium.
Monasticism and the First Mechanical Clocks.
Hierarchy, Creation, and Il Veltro: Three Footnotes to Dante's Inferno.
The Astrolabe.
Astrolabes and the Hour-Line Ritual.
Summa ratione confectum: An Astrolabe Drawn by Computer (with Ole 0sterby and Kurt M0ller Pedersen).
Eternity and Infinity in Late Medieval Thought.
Celestial Influence — the Major Premiss of Astrology.
Intimations of Cosmic Unity? Fourteenth-Century Views on Celestial and Sub-Lunar Motion.
Kinematics — More Ethereal than Elementary.
The Alfonsine Tables in England.
1348 and All That: Oxford Science and the Black Death.
Nicolaus Kratzer — The King's Astronomer.
The Medieval Background to Copernicus.