Illustrating the Phaenomena

Celestial Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

By Elly Dekker

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Publish Date

2012

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Language

eng

Pages

456

Description:

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.

subjects: Stars, atlases, Stars, Atlases, History, Early works to 1800, Ancient Astronomy, Medieval Astronomy, Celestial globes