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Monks, manuscripts and sundials : the navicula in medieval England /
Bringing together the surviving material and manuscript evidence, this book looks closely at a fascinating medieval sundial in the form of a ship. It considers who made and used the surviving instruments, as well as studying the scholars who wrote about it.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Latín |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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| Colección: | History of science and medicine library ;
v. 13. History of science and medicine library. Medieval and early modern science ; v. 11. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Monks, manuscripts, and sundials : the navicula in medieval England
- Five fifteenth-century sundials
- Manuscript sources about the navicula
- Calendar tables and latitude lists
- Texts, instruments, diagrams and relations between them
- Using a sundial, understanding the heavens?
- The navicula and the organum ptolomei
- How sixteenth-century books redefined a medieval sundial.