Renaissance astrolabes and their makers / Gerard L'E. Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turner, Gerard L'Estrange.

Series:

Collected studies ; CS766.

Collected studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Astrolabes.

Astronomy, Renaissance--Instruments.

Astronomy, Renaissance.

Instrument manufacture--Europe--History--Modern period, 1500---Biography.

Instrument manufacture.

History.

Europe.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations, portrait ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2003]

Contents:

I Later Medieval and Renaissance Instruments (Astronomy before the Telescope, ed. Christopher Walker. London: British Museum Press, 1996) 231

II The Craftsmanship of the 'Carolingian' Astrolabe, IC 3042 (The Oldest Latin Astrolabe, ed. W.M. Stevens, G. Beaujouan, A.J. Turner, fascicolo speciale, Physis: Rivista internazionale di Storia della Scienza, 32, fasc. 2-3. Florence, 1995) 421

III A Critique of the Use of the First Point of Aries in Dating Astrolabes (Sic itur ad astra: Studien zur Geschichte der Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften. Festschrift fur den Arabisten Paul Kunitzsch zum 70. Geburtstag, ed. M. Folkerts & R. Lorch. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2000) 548

IV The Astrolabe Presented by Regiomontanus to Cardinal Bessarion in 1462 (Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza, 9, part 1. Florence, 1994) / (Co-authored with D.A. King) 165

V An Astrolabe Belonging to Galileo? (Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza, 12, part 1. Florence, 1997) 87

VI The Florentine Workshop of Giovan Battista Giusti, 1556-c. 1575 (Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza, 10, part 1. Florence, 1995) 131

VII An Astrolabe Attributed to Gerard Mercator, c. 1570 (Annals of Science, 50. London & Washington, D.C., 1993) / (Co-authored with Elly Dekker) 403

VIII The Three Astrolabes of Gerard Mercator (Annals of Science, 51. London & Washington, D.C., 1994) 329

IX A Tudor Astrolabe by Thomas Gemini and its Relationship to an Astrological Disc by Gerard Mercator of 1551 (The Antiquaries Journal, 81. London, 2001) / (Co-authored with K. Van Cleempoel) 400

X An Astrolabe for Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma, by Erasmus Habermel (Catalogue, London: Christie Manson & Woods, 11 October 1995, pp. 8-30) 1

XI An Unusual Elizabethan Silver Globe by Charles Whitwell (The Antiquaries Journal, 77. London, 1997) / (Co-authored with Elly Dekker) 393

XII Zinner's Ghosts and a Curious Date: 1576 (Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society, No. 50, September 1996, pp. 1-13) / (Co-authored with A.D. Morrison-Low) 1.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0860789039

OCLC:

51304074