Was Weather Forecasting Studied in the Medieval Czech Lands? Notes on the Codicological Evidence

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985955%3A_____%2F21%3A00544923" target="_blank" >RIV/67985955:_____/21:00544923 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SA-EB.5.122640" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SA-EB.5.122640</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.SA-EB.5.122640" target="_blank" >10.1484/M.SA-EB.5.122640</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Was Weather Forecasting Studied in the Medieval Czech Lands? Notes on the Codicological Evidence

Original language description

This study presents three most important Prague collections of Medieval Latin texts on weather forecasting. The manuscripts research shows that the tradition of weather forecasting at the University of Prague was not noticeably outstanding, especially compared to the tradition in Cracow, and compared to Aristotelian meteorology, which was widely studied at the medieval University of Prague. (Derived from the Aristotelian tradition, medieval meteorology studied the material and efficient causes of meteorological and similar phenomena. That is why meteorology excluded the field of weather forecasting, which was built on the study of the primary causes, namely the movement of celestial objects.) This study seeks to answer the question, to what extent medieval Czech scholars engaged in weather forecasting, where they learned about this particular field of study, and what it included.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA19-03834S" target="_blank" >GA19-03834S: Historical development of meteorological theories and terminology in the Czech Lands</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Studying the Arts in Late Medieval Bohemia: Production, Reception and Transmission of Knowledge

ISBN

978-2-503-59317-3

Number of pages of the result

16

Pages from-to

235-250

Number of pages of the book

358

Publisher name

Brepols

Place of publication

Turnhout

UT code for WoS chapter

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