Monks, manuscripts and sundials : the navicula in medieval England / by Catherine Eagleton.
Pubblicazione:
Leiden : Brill, 2010.
Descrizione fisica:
x, 292 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Serie:
History of science and medicine library. Medieval and early modern science, 1872-0684 ; 11
Note:
Numero 13 della serie principale
Contiene:
Indice: List of figures. Acknowledgements. 1. Monks, manuscripts and sundials: the navicula in medieval England 2. Five fifteenth-century sundials 3. Manuscript sources about the navicula 4. Calendar tables and latitude lists 5. Texts, instruments, diagrams and relations between them 6. Using a sundial, understanding the heavens? 7. The navicula and the organum Ptolomei 8. How sixteenth-century books redefined a medieval sundial. Appendix 1: Group A navicula manuscripts. Appendix 2: Group A navicula manuscripts. Appendix 3: Group A navicula manuscripts. Appendix 4: Group A stemmatics. Appendix 5: The group B navicula manuscripts. Appendix 6: The group C navicula manuscript. Appendix 7: The group D navicula manuscript. Appendix 8: The group E navicula text. Appendix 9: Organum Ptolomei ita sit... . Bibliography. Index
