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Title: The Astrolabes of the World: Based Upon the Series of Instruments in the Lewis Evans Collection in the Old Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, with Notes on Astrolabes in the Collections of the British Museum, Science Museum, Sir J. Findlay, Mr. S. V. Hoffman, the Mensing Collection, and in Other Public and Private Collections
Author: Robert T. Gunther Publisher: Holland Press (London) Printing Year: 1976 Two volumes in one Condition/Details: Bound in green cloth with bright gilt embossing, this volume is a scarce study of a historical astronomical instrument used by classical astronomers, navigators, and astrologers. Its many uses included locating and predicting the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets and stars; determining local time given local latitude and vice-versa; surveying; and triangulation. "Gunther's monumental survey stems from his work in cataloguing the Lewis Evans Collection in the old Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. With a personal knowledge of over three hundred astrolabes, he adopts a country-by-country survey which encompasses a period of over two thousand years. Special features of the work are certain early "Treatises on the Astrolabe" which serve as introductions to several of the chapters. William Morley's classical "Description of a Planispheric Astrolabe contructed for Shah Sultan Husain Safawi, King of Persia" is reproduced in its entirety as a general introduction. There are also chapters on astrolabe clocks, the availability of astrolabes for the construction of sundials and an account of the literature and bibliography of the instrument which contains three pages of the first printed book on the astrolabe, Robertus Anglicus' "De Astrolabi Canones" of 1480." (dustjacket text). The work is illustrated with many photographs, drawings and fifty full-page plates. The volume shows is in excellent condition, now in a glassine cover, and is solidly bound with clean, bright pages. The book measures approximately 9.5" x 11.25" and contains 609 pages. Shipping cost (within the U.S.) for this lot will be: $9.50 ImagesClick on thumbnails to see larger images:
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