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.
| Autor: | Dekker Elly |
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| ISBN: | 9780199609697 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Oxford Academic |
| Veröffentlicht: | 25.10.2012 |
| Untertitel: | Celestial cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages |
| Schlagworte: | ART / History / General Astronomical charts & atlases Astronomical charts and atlases Geographical maps (specialist) Geographical maps: specialist / thematic maps History of Art History of Science History of art / art & design styles REFERENCE / Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography SCIENCE / History SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy |
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.