Gerard L'E. Turner
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
310
2003
An international authority on historical scientific instruments Gerard Turner has collected here his essays on European astrolabes and related topics. By 1600 the astrolabe had nearly ceased to be made and used in the West and before that date there was little of the source material for the study of instruments that exists for more modern times. Astrolabes in particular are rich in all sorts of information mathematical astronomical metallurgical in addition to what they can reveal about craftsmanship the existence of workshops and economic and social conditions. Gerard Turner's forensic achievements include the identification of three astrolabes made by Gerard Mercator all of whose instruments were thought to have been destroyed. Other essays concentrate on the discovery of an important late 16th-century Florentine workshop and a group of mid-15th-century German astrolabes linked to Regiomontanus.
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
310
2003
An international authority on historical scientific instruments Gerard Turner has collected here his essays on European astrolabes and related topics. By 1600 the astrolabe had nearly ceased to be made and used in the West and before that date there was little of the source material for the study of instruments that exists for more modern times. Astrolabes in particular are rich in all sorts of information mathematical astronomical metallurgical in addition to what they can reveal about craftsmanship the existence of workshops and economic and social conditions. Gerard Turner's forensic achievements include the identification of three astrolabes made by Gerard Mercator all of whose instruments were thought to have been destroyed. Other essays concentrate on the discovery of an important late 16th-century Florentine workshop and a group of mid-15th-century German astrolabes linked to Regiomontanus.