UID:
almafu_9959227771102883
Umfang:
1 online resource (487 p.)
ISBN:
0-19-164219-3
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1-283-71339-X
Inhalt:
In this volume all extant celestial maps and globes made before 1500 are described and analysed. It also discusses the astronomical sources involved in making these artefacts in antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Islamic world and the European Renaissance before 1500.
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Contents; 1. Preliminaries; 1.1 The descriptive tradition; 1.2 The geometry of the cosmos; 1.3 The mathematical tradition; 1.4 Signs, conventions, precession, and epochal modes; 1.5 Prerequisites to globe making; 1.6 Hipparchus's rule; Appendix 1.1 Summary of the ancient constellations; Appendix 1.2 On sources; Appendix 1.3 Locating colures with respect to stars; 2. Celestial cartography in antiquity; 2.1 The Berlin fragment; 2.2 The Larissa globe; 2.3 Kugel's globe; 2.4 The Mainz globe; 2.5 Hyginus's globe; 2.6 The Farnese globe; Appendix 2.1 Catalogue of antique celestial globes
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3. The descriptive tradition in the Middle Ages3.1 Summer and winter hemispheres; 3.2 Planispheres; 3.3 Northern and southern hemispheres; 3.4 Globe making in the Middle Ages; Appendix 3.1 Catalogue of medieval hemispheres; Appendix 3.2 Catalogue of medieval planispheres; Appendix 3.3 Northern and southern medieval hemispheres; Appendix 3.4 Medieval pictures of globes; 4. Islamic celestial cartography; 4.1 The celestial ceiling of Qusayr (omitted)Amra; 4.2 The Islamic mathematical tradition; 4.3 The Uranography of Abu 'L-Husayn al-Sufi (903-86); 4.4 Extant globes made before 1500
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Appendix 4.1 Islamic globes with constellation images made before 15005. The mathematical tradition in medieval Europe; 5.1 The mathematical tradition: the Islamic legacy; 5.2 Ptolemy's precession globe; 5.3 Maps in the mathematical tradition; 5.4 Globes in the service of astrology; Appendix 5.1 European celestial maps made before 1500; Appendix 5.2 European celestial globes made before 1500; Epilogue; Bibliography; Addendum; Manuscript Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; I; L; K; M; O; N; P; S; V; Z; Author Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-19-960969-1
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-19-174564-2
Sprache:
Englisch
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