Astrolabes from medieval Europe /
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| Author / Creator: | King, David A. |
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| Imprint: | London ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2011 |
| Description: | 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Variorum collected studies series Collected studies. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8561515 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part I. General
- Astronomical instruments between East and West
- Part II. The Earliest European Astrolabe
- The earliest known European astrolabe in the light of other early astrolabes
- Part III. An Astrolabe Featuring a Remarkable Number Notation
- Rewriting history through instruments: the secrets of a medieval astrolabe from Picardy
- Part IV. More Individual European Astrolabes
- The medieval Catalan astrolabe of the Society of Antiquaries, London (co-authored with Kurt Maier)
- A remarkable Italian astrolabe from ca. 1300 - witness to an ingenious tradition of non-standard astrolabes
- An astrolabe from Einbeck datable ca. 1330
- Part V. Astrolabe Stars
- The star-names on three 14th-century astrolabes from Spain, France and Italy
- Part VI. Universal Horary Devices
- A vetustissimus Arabic text on the quadrans vetus
- 14th-century England or 9th-century Baghdad? New insights on the elusive astronomical instrument called the Navicula de Venetiis
- Part VII. Two Renaissance Astrolabes
- The astrolabe depicted in the intarsia of the studiolo of Archduke Frederico in Urbino
- The astrolabe presented by Regiomontanus to Cardinal Bessarion in 1462 (co-authored with Gerard L'E. Turner)
- Part VIII. An Aid to Future Research
- An ordered list of European astrolabes up to ca. 1500
- Index
