Illustrating the phaenomena : celestial cartography in antiquity and the Middle Ages

1. Verfasser: Dekker, Elly , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013
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.