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Konrad van Cleempoel.
Astrolabes at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Astrolabes in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
Oxford U.P./National Maritime Museum, 2005.
ISBN 0198530692;
ISBN-13: 9780198530695.
Hardback, stitch bound; issued with dustjacket in a stout slipcase.
252x338x30mm.
ix,339pp, monochrome illustrations throughout, plus 16 pages of colour plates.
English.
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This item £85.00
~~[Publisher's price £116.00]~~
2199g.

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The astrolabe is one of the most intriguing of all early scientific instruments. Invented by the Greeks, the design and construction of the astrolabe remained largely unchanged for hundreds of years as it passed through the Arabic, Indian, Persian, and Medieval European cultures. The astrolabe was the starting-point for the design of many other types of calculating and observing instruments in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. With 53 astrolabes, the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich houses one of the largest collections in the world. This number presents a fair balance between the Eastern (30) and the Western (23) instruments, with some exceptionally fine highlights in each group.

This beautifully-produced large format book catalogues the astrolabes in the National Maritime Museum collection, and includes accompanying essays written by world experts in their fields. Published in series with Globes at Greenwich and Sundials at Greenwich, this prestigious catalogue will appeal to collectors of such scientific instruments as well as academic historians of science.

Readership: Historians of science, astronomy, navigation, and scientific instruments. Museum curators. Amateur collectors of astrolabes, sextants, and other navigational and scientific instruments.

Contents:
1. The Provenance of the Astrolabe Collection at the National Maritime Museum
2. The Construction and Use of the Astrolabe, David Proctor
3. The Literature of the Astrolabe to 1450, Richard Lorch
4. From Brass to Text: the European Astrolabe in Literature and Print, A. J. Turner
5. The Stars on the Astrolabe, Paul Kunitzsch
6. Exploring the Retes of Astrolabes, Elly Dekker
7. Astrological Scales on the Greenwich Astrolabes, Silke Ackermann
8. The Problem of Authenticity, Konrad Van Cleempoel
9. Representations of Astrolabes in Western Art, Konrad Van Cleempoel
10. Catalogue of European Astrolabes , Koenraad van Cleempoel
11. Catalogue of Eastern Astrolabes, Francois Charette
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