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These ten essays, published over the last twenty years, consider the classical foundation for the renewed interest in planetary astronomy in the Carolingian and Post-Carolingian period, c.9th to 11th century. Eastwood argues that improvements in charting lunar and solar movements and the revival and reformulation of astronomical data owed much to the works of ancient writers such as Pliny, Macrobius, Calcidius and Martianus Capella.