Changing the Angle of Vision: Astrolabe Dials on Astronomical Clocks
From the middle of the fourteenth century until the Early Modern period, several monumental astronomical clocks were erected in Europe, and on many of them astrolabe dials were placed. On a group of earlier clocks, “southern astrolabes” (i.e. with stereographic projection from the North Pole) were e...
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Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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Medieval encounters
Year: 2017, Volume: 23, Issue: 1/5, Pages: 404-420 |
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Astronomical clocks
astrolabes
astrolabe dials
stereographic projection
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