Illustrating the phaenomena : celestial cartography in antiquity and the Middle Ages / Elly Dekker.

  • Dekker, Elly.
Date:
2013
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Publication/Creation

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Physical description

x, 467 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm

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Edition

1st ed.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Preliminaries -- 2. Celestial cartography in antiquity -- 3. The descriptive tradition in the Middle Ages -- 4. Islamic celestial cartography -- 5. The mathematical tradition in medieval Europe.

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    History of Medicine
    AJ.AA1-4
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ISBN

  • 9780199609697
  • 0199609691