Illustrating the phaenomena : celestial cartography in antiquity and the Middle Ages
1. Verfasser: |
Dekker, Elly
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Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2013
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Ausgabe: | 1st ed. |
Umfang/Format: |
x, 467 pages : illusrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm. |
ISBN: | 9780199609697 (hbk.) 0199609691 (hbk.) |
Schlagworte: | |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 1. Preliminaries
- 2. Celestial cartography in antiquity
- 3. The descriptive tradition in the Middle Ages
- 4. Islamic celestial cartography
- 5. The mathematical tradition in medieval Europe.