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Author : Benjamin Pike
Publisher : Norman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780930405540
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Pike's Illustrated Catalogue of Scientific Instruments written by Benjamin Pike and published by Norman Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David King
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004450734
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book World-maps for Finding the Direction and Distance to Mecca written by David King and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-06 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two remarkable Iranian world-maps were discovered in 1989 and 1995. Both are made of brass and date from 17th-century Iran. Mecca is at the centre and a highly sophisticated longitude and latitude grid enables the user to determine the direction and distance to Mecca for anywhere in the world between Andalusia and China. Prior to the discovery of these maps it was thought that such cartographic grids were conceived in Europe ca. 1910. This richly-illustrated book presents an overview of the ways in which Muslims over the centuries have determined the sacred direction towards Mecca (qibla) and then describes the two world-maps in detail. The author shows that the geographical data derives from a 15th-century Central Asian source and that the mathematics underlying the grid was developed in 9th-century Baghdad.
Author : Henry Sotheran Ltd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of Science and Technology, No written by Henry Sotheran Ltd and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Kunitzsch
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447042901
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Sic Itur Ad Astra written by Paul Kunitzsch and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2000 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Festschrift vereinigt 29 Beitrage, die folgende Sachgebiete betreffen: arabische und mittelalterlich-europaische Mathematik, Uberlieferungsgeschichte der indisch-arabischen Ziffern, die arabisch-islamische Astronomie, die volkstumliche arabische Himmelskunde, das Astrolab und seine Nomenklatur, antike und spatgriechische astronome Traditionen, weitere Fragen bzw. Texte zur Uberlieferung der Wissenschaften im griechisch-syrisch-arabisch-lateinischen Traditionsraum. Alle Arbeiten sind originell und beruhen auf einschlagigen Originalquellen. Mehrere griechische, syrische, arabische und lateinische Texte bzw. Auszuge daraus sind auch ediert. Die Sammlung enthalt somit wichtige, neue Bausteine fur unser Gesamtbild von den arabischen Wissenschaften, ihrem Nachleben in Europa und weiteren Ausstrahlungen auf die europaische Geistesgeschichte.
Author : David King
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047406753
Total Pages : 1142 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book In Synchrony with the Heavens, Volume 2 Instruments of Mass Calculation written by David King and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first investigation of one of the main interests of astronomy in Islamic civilization, namely, timekeeping by the sun and stars and the regulation of the astronomically-defined times of Muslim prayer. The study is based on over 500 medieval astronomical manuscripts first identified by the author, now preserved in libraries all over the world and originally from the entire Islamic world from the Maghrib to Central Asia and the Yemen. The materials presented provide new insights into the early development of the prayer ritual in Islam. They also call into question the popular notion that religion could not inspire serious scientific activity. Only one of the hundreds of astronomical tables discussed here was known in medieval Europe, which is one reason why the entire corpus has remained unknown until the present. A second volume, also to be published by Brill, deals with astronomical instruments for timekeeping and other computing devices.
Author : Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mechanik und Optik
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Special Catalogue of the Collective Exhibition of Scientific Instruments and Appliances Exhibited by the Deutsche Gesellschaft Für Mechanik und Optik, Berlin written by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mechanik und Optik and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David A. King
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783515076401
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (764 download)
Download or read book The Ciphers of the Monks written by David A. King and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 2001 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive study of an ingenious number-notation from the Middle Ages that was devised by monks and mainly used in monasteries. A simple notation for representing any number up to 99 by a single cipher, somehow related to an ancient Greek shorthand, first appeared in early-13th-century England, brought from Athens by an English monk. A second, more useful version, due to Cistercian monks, is first attested in the late 13th century in what is today the border country between Belgium and France: with this any number up to 9999 can be represented by a single cipher. The ciphers were used in scriptoria - for the foliation of manuscripts, for writing year-numbers, preparing indexes and concordances, numbering sermons and the like, and outside the scriptoria - for marking the scales on an astronomical instrument, writing year-numbers in astronomical tables, and for incising volumes on wine-barrels. Related notations were used in medieval and Renaissance shorthands and coded scripts. This richly-illustrated book surveys the medieval manuscripts and Renaissance books in which the ciphers occur, and takes a close look at an intriguing astrolabe from 14th-century Picardy marked with ciphers. With Indices. "Mit Kings luzider Beschreibung und Bewertung der einzelnen Funde und ihrer Beziehungen wird zugleich die Forschungsgeschichte - die bis dato durch Widerspruechlichkeit und Diskontinuit�t gepr�gt ist - umfassend aufgearbeitet." Zeitschrift fuer Germanistik.
Author : Gerard L'Estrange Turner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520217287
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Scientific Instruments, 1500-1900 written by Gerard L'Estrange Turner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impulse to collect is universal. Collections containing natural curiosities date from the 16th century, and it was this type of collection in which scientific instruments found a home. This book traces the historical origins and development of instruments as they spread across the globe, explaining their manufacture, use, and adaptations. 91 color and 20 b&w plates.
Author : David A. King
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040241824
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Astrolabes from Medieval Europe written by David A. King and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fourth set of studies in the Variorum series by David King, a leading authority on the history of astronomy in Islamic civilization and on medieval astronomical instruments, European as well as Islamic. The first of the eleven studies collected here deals with medieval instruments in general, as precious historical sources. The following papers focus on individual astrolabes from the European Middle Ages and early Renaissance that are of singular historical importance. Two look at the origins of the simple universal horary quadrant and the complicated universal horary dial (navicula). The collection concludes with a list of all known medieval European astrolabes, ordered chronologically by region. Three "landmark" astrolabes are discussed: (1) the earliest known European astrolabe from 10th-century Catalonia, that milieu in which the astrolabe first became known to Europeans; (2) an astrolabe from 14th-century Picardy bearing numerals written in monastic ciphers as well as a later dedication mentioning two friends of Erasmus; (3) the splendid astrolabe presented in 1462 by the German astronomer Regiomontanus to his patron Cardinal Bessarion, with its enigmatic angel and Latin dedication, here presented in the context of other astrolabes of similar design from 15th-century Vienna.
Author : Montgomery Ward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1218 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalogue written by Montgomery Ward and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 1218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernard Quaritch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book New Catalogue of Misc. Works ... written by Bernard Quaritch and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Giorgio Strano
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900417270X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book European Collections of Scientific Instruments, 1550-1750 written by Giorgio Strano and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-01-26 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These selected studies on sixteenth and eighteenth centuries European collections of scientific instruments, which were part of the princely ‘wunderkammern’, delineate an up-to-date-panorama about the formation of the most important museums of the history of science.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Optician and Scientific Instrument Maker written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Norman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780930405304
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Queen Catalogues written by and published by Norman Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)
Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Norman Lockyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 988 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Nature written by Sir Norman Lockyer and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 922 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Collection of incunabula and early medical prints in the library of the Surgeon-general's office, U.S. Army": Ser. 3, v. 10, p. 1415-1436.
