Book ID: CBB000640790

Astrolabes at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Astrolabes in the National Maritime Museum (2005)

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Cleempoel, Koenraad Van (Editor)


Oxford University Press and the National Maritime Museum


Publication Date: 2005
Physical Details: ix + 339 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review Stephenson, Bruce (2006) Review of "Astrolabes at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Astrolabes in the National Maritime Museum". Journal for the History of Astronomy (p. 367). unapi

Review Higton, Hester (2007) Review of "Astrolabes at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Astrolabes in the National Maritime Museum". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 129). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Calvo, Emilia
Charette, François
King, David A.
Sarma, Sreeramula Rajeswara
Betts, Jonathan
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Journals
Suhayl: Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilisation
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Indian Journal of History of Science
Mariner's Mirror
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum
Amis des Instruments des Sciences et des Astrolabes
Brill
Fassbaender
Giunti
Concepts
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Astronomy
Astrolabes
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Museum and exhibit catalogs
Time measuring instruments
People
Chaucer, Geoffrey
al-Khwārizmī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsā
Ibn Bāṣo, Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad
Johannes von Gmunden
Misrī, Muhammad ibn Muhammad
Ptolemy, Claudius
Time Periods
Medieval
19th century
Ancient
11th century
14th century
16th century
Places
Spain
India
Korea
Persia (Iran)
Egypt
Europe
Institutions
National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
Greenwich Observatory
Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence
Universität Wien
Ontario. Royal Ontario Museum
Adler Planetarium, Chicago
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