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Updated April 3rd, 2008

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Copernicus

[No author].
Ptolemy, The Almagest (tr. R. Catesby Talieferro); Nicolaus Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (tr. Charles Glenn Wallis); Johannes Kepler, Epitome of Copernican Astronomy, IV-V (tr. Charles Glenn Wallis). (Great Books of the Western World, vol. 16; hb) £12.00



Secondary works

Edward S. Kennedy
Astronomy and Astrology in the Medieval Islamic World. (hb) £40.00 



Books & journals containing related material

David Ewing Duncan
The Calendar: The 5000-Year Struggle to Align the Clock and the Heavens - and What Happened to the Missing Ten Days. (hb) £5.00

J. V. Field, D. R. Hill, M. T. Wright
Byzantine and Arabic Mathematical Gearing. (pb) £7.00  

George Henwood
Abbot Richard of Wallingford, 14th Century Scholar & Instrument Maker. (pb) £7.00 

Arthur O. Lovejoy
The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea. (pb) £4.00  

Teresa Pérez-Higuera
The Art of Time: Medieval Calendars and the Zodiac. (hb) £16.50 (out of print)

E. M. W. Tillyard 
The Elizabethan World Picture. (pb) £4.00

Konrad van Cleempoel
Astrolabes at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Astrolabes in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. (hb) £85.00

 
 
 
 


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