Monks, manuscripts and sundials [electronic resource] : the navicula in medieval England / by Catherine Eagleton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Latin Original language: Latin Series: History of science and medicine library ; v. 13. | History of science and medicine library. Medieval and early modern science ; ; v. 11.Publication details: Leiden [Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2010.Description: x, 292 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 681.1/11209420902 22
LOC classification:
  • QB215 .E116 2010eb
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Contents:
Monks, manuscripts, and sundials : the navicula in medieval England -- Five fifteenth-century sundials -- Manuscript sources about the navicula -- Calendar tables and latitude lists -- Texts, instruments, diagrams and relations between them -- Using a sundial, understanding the heavens? -- The navicula and the organum ptolomei -- How sixteenth-century books redefined a medieval sundial.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Monks, manuscripts, and sundials : the navicula in medieval England -- Five fifteenth-century sundials -- Manuscript sources about the navicula -- Calendar tables and latitude lists -- Texts, instruments, diagrams and relations between them -- Using a sundial, understanding the heavens? -- The navicula and the organum ptolomei -- How sixteenth-century books redefined a medieval sundial.

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