Illustrating the Phaenomena - Celestial Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Zusatztext Behold! An astonishingly thorough account of how observers from ancient Greece to fifteenth-century Vienna and Nuremberg envisioned the star patterns. It is hard to imagine that any celestial globe or manuscript from this period has escaped Elly Dekker's meticulous sleuthing and analysis. The result is this admirable and beautifully illustrated tour de force of scholarship. Informationen zum Autor Elly Dekker is an independent scholar studying the history of astronomy and of scientific instruments. She was awarded the Sackler Fellowship and the Caird medal for cataloguing the collection of globes and armillary spheres of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich. Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung In this book all extant celestial maps and globes made before 1500 are described and analysed in detail. It also discusses extensively the astronomical sources involved in making these artefacts in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Islamic World and the European Renaissance before 1500. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Preliminaries 2: Celestial Globes in Antiquity 3: The descriptive tradition in the Middle Ages 4: Islamic celestial cartography 5: The mathematical tradition in medieval Europe 6: Epilogue

Product details

• Authors: Elly Dekker, Elly (Independent scholar) Dekker, Dekker Elly
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2012
• EAN: 9780199609697
• ISBN: 978-0-19-960969-7
• No. of pages: 456
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, SCIENCE / History, ART / History / General, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, History of Science, Geographical maps (specialist), Astronomical charts & atlases, Astronomical charts and atlases, REFERENCE / Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps, SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy, Geographical maps: specialist / thematic maps