Renaissance Astrolabes and their Makers
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Renaissance Astrolabes and their Makers

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Renaissance Astrolabes and their Makers

About this book

This book is about the archaeology of science, or what can be learnt from the systematic examination of the artefacts made by precision craftsmen for the study of the natural world. An international authority on historical scientific instruments, Gerard Turner has collected here his essays on European astrolabes and related topics. By 1600 the astrolabe had nearly ceased to be made and used in the West, and before that date there was little of the source material for the study of instruments that exists for more modern times. It is necessary to 'read' the instruments themselves, and astrolabes in particular are rich in all sorts of information, mathematical, astronomical, metallurgical, in addition to what they can reveal about craftsmanship, the existence of workshops, and economic and social conditions. There is a strong forensic element in instrument research, and Gerard Turner's achievements include the identification of three astrolabes made by Gerard Mercator, all of whose instruments were thought to have been destroyed. Other essays deal with the discovery of an important late 16th-century Florentine workshop, and of a group of mid-15th-century German astrolabes linked to Regiomontanus.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781040242742
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series
  3. Half Title
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. I Later Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
  10. II The Craftsmanship of the 'Carolingian' Astrolabe, IC 3042
  11. III A Critique of the Use of the First Point of Aries in Dating Astrolabes
  12. IV The Astrolabe Presented by Regiomontanus to Cardinal Bessarion in 1462
  13. V An Astrolabe Belonging to Galileo?
  14. VI The Florentine Workshop of Giovan Battista Giusti, 1556-c. 1575
  15. VII An Astrolabe Attributed to Gerard Mercator, c. 1570
  16. VIII The Three Astrolabes of Gerard Mercator
  17. IX A Tudor Astrolabe by Thomas Gemini and its Relationship to an Astrological Disc by Gerard Mercator of 1551
  18. X An Astrolabe for Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma, by Erasmus Habermel
  19. XI An Unusual Elizabethan Silver Globe by Charles Whitwell
  20. XII Zinner's Ghosts and a Curious Date: 1576
  21. Index