The Astrolabe

Author : James E.. Morrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Astrolabes
ISBN : 0939320304

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Author : Farghānī
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Nature
ISBN : 3515087133

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On the Astrolabe by Farghānī Pdf

In the Middle Ages the astrolabe was the best known and most widely used astronomical instrument both in the Islamic world and in the West. The oldest extant description of the construction of this instrument was written by the well-known Arabic astronomer al-Farghani (Baghdad, ca. 856). His treatise is especially valuable because of the tables it contains to enable an artificer to draw the various circles and arcs on the instrument. The Arabic text of this work, including the tables, is presented here for the first time in a critical edition, accompanied by an English translation and a commentary reproducing al-Farghani's reasoning in modern mathematical notation.

Author : Walter Skeat
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382166335

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The Astrolabe by Walter Skeat Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0806134135

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A Treatise on the Astrolabe by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

A Treatise the Astrolabe by Geoffrey Chaucer is the work of an avid amateur astronomer who happened also to be England’s greatest medieval poet. A user of the astrolabe can plot the movement of the stars, tell time, and calculate numerous other results. Chaucer translated and revised a standard Latin treatment of the astrolabe. His treatise, which is generally regarded as one of the first technical manuals in English and a model of how technical manuals should be written. Not since 1872 has a free-standing edition of A Treatise the Astrolabe been published. Thanks to the expertise of its editor, Sigmund Eisner, who supplies sixty-eight illustrations, this Variorum edition provides a more detailed exposition than previously available. Eisner’s extensive labors result in the first complete record of textual variants found in the thirty-two surviving manuscripts of the work and in all the major printed text published between 1532 and 1987. This landmark edition also presents a thorough digest of all published commentary on Chaucer’s treatise. Amplified by sixty-eight illustrations, this variorum edition of Chaucer’s A Treatise on the Astrolabe provides a more detailed exposition of the treatise than has ever before been available.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00090484

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A Treatise on the Astrolabe by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000318377

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A treatise on the astrolabe, addressed to his son Lowys, A.D. 1391 by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590223025

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A treatise on the astrolabe, ed. by W.W. Skeat by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

Author : Marijane Osborn
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0806134038

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Time and the Astrolabe in the Canterbury Tales by Marijane Osborn Pdf

Marijane Osborn demonstrates that Chaucer structured the Canterbury Tales after the astrolabe, an Arabic Islamic time-keeping device. Chaucer’s fascination with this device also accounts for the sense of time and astronomy in the Tales.

Author : Walter William I Skeat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z258323703

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A Treatise on The Astrolabe; Addressed to His Son Lowys by Geoffrey Chaucer. A.D. 1391. Ed. from the Earliest Mss by Walter William I Skeat Pdf

Author : Alan Stimson
Publisher : UC Biblioteca Geral 1
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Astrolabes
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Mariner's Astrolabe. A Survey of 48 Surviving Examples by Alan Stimson Pdf

Author : Seb Falk
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781324002949

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The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science by Seb Falk Pdf

Named a Best Book of 2020 by The Telegraph, The Times, and BBC History Magazine An illuminating guide to the scientific and technological achievements of the Middle Ages through the life of a crusading astronomer-monk. "Falk’s bubbling curiosity and strong sense of storytelling always swept me along. By the end, The Light Ages didn’t just broaden my conception of science; even as I scrolled away on my Kindle, it felt like I was sitting alongside Westwyk at St. Albans abbey, leafing through dusty manuscripts by candlelight." —Alex Orlando, Discover Soaring Gothic cathedrals, violent crusades, the Black Death: these are the dramatic forces that shaped the medieval era. But the so-called Dark Ages also gave us the first universities, eyeglasses, and mechanical clocks. As medieval thinkers sought to understand the world around them, from the passing of the seasons to the stars in the sky, they came to develop a vibrant scientific culture. In The Light Ages, Cambridge science historian Seb Falk takes us on a tour of medieval science through the eyes of one fourteenth-century monk, John of Westwyk. Born in a rural manor, educated in England’s grandest monastery, and then exiled to a clifftop priory, Westwyk was an intrepid crusader, inventor, and astrologer. From multiplying Roman numerals to navigating by the stars, curing disease, and telling time with an ancient astrolabe, we learn emerging science alongside Westwyk and travel with him through the length and breadth of England and beyond its shores. On our way, we encounter a remarkable cast of characters: the clock-building English abbot with leprosy, the French craftsman-turned-spy, and the Persian polymath who founded the world’s most advanced observatory. The Light Ages offers a gripping story of the struggles and successes of an ordinary man in a precarious world and conjures a vivid picture of medieval life as we have never seen it before. An enlightening history that argues that these times weren’t so dark after all, The Light Ages shows how medieval ideas continue to color how we see the world today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004387867

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Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures by Anonim Pdf

First published as a special issue of the journal Medieval Encounters (vol. 23, 2017), this volume, edited by Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Charles Burnett, Silke Ackermann, and Ryan Szpiech, brings together fifteen studies on various aspects of the astrolabe in medieval cultures. The astrolabe, developed in antiquity and elaborated throughout the Middle Ages, was used for calculation, teaching, and observation, and also served astrological and medical purposes. It was the most popular and prestigious of the mathematical instruments, and was found equally among practitioners of various sciences and arts as among princes in royal courts. By considering sources and instruments from Muslim, Christian, and Jewish contexts, this volume provides state-of-the-art research on the history and use of the astrolabe throughout the Middle Ages. Contributors are Silke Ackermann, Emilia Calvo, John Davis, Laura Fernández Fernández, Miquel Forcada, Azucena Hernández, David A. King, Taro Mimura, Günther Oestmann, Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma, Petra G. Schmidl, Giorgio Strano, Flora Vafea, and Johannes Thomann.

Author : John Philoponus of Alexandria
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1631741020

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On the Astrolabe by John Philoponus of Alexandria Pdf

Author : Roderick S. Webster,Paul R. MacAlister,Flolydia M. Etting
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Astrolabes
ISBN : NWU:35556030509038

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The Astrolabe by Roderick S. Webster,Paul R. MacAlister,Flolydia M. Etting Pdf

Assembles into a functional astrolabe, valid to the year 2046.

Author : Arianna Borrelli
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Astrolabes
ISBN : IND:30000115612008

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Aspects of the Astrolabe by Arianna Borrelli Pdf

"The astrolabe - often quoted as "the earliest computer" - is a mechanical instrument capable of performing astronomical computations. This study offers a new interpretation of its role in the Latin culture of the High Middle Ages, highlighting its epistemological significance. For Latin scholars around the year 1000, the astrolabe became the earliest, non-verbal channel to access and assimilate mathematical knowledge from the Arabic culture, and could be seen as representing a divine 'architectonical rationality' which humans could share in the mathematical experience. The novel methodology of this work combines the results of historical and philological analyses of manuscripts and material sources with the most recent insights on different kinds of mathematical thinking. Focussing on drawings and text fragments, with a new, detailed analysis of ms. Paris BnF 7412 (11th c), the study reconstructs the Latin high medieval mathematical experience, its non-verbal modes of communication and its relationship with both practice and philosophy."--BOOK JACKET.