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Author:
Eagleton, Catherine.
Title:
Monks, manuscripts and sundials : the navicula in medieval England / by Catherine Eagleton.
Publisher:
Brill,
Copyright Date:
2010
Description:
x, 292 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Sundials--History--To 1500--Sources.
Sundials--Great Britain--History--Sources.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Monks, manuscripts, and sundials : the navicula in medieval England -- Five fifteenth-century sundials -- Manuscript sources about the navicula -- Calendar tables and latitude lists -- Texts, instruments, diagrams and relations between them -- Using a sundial, understanding the heavens? -- The navicula and the organum ptolomei -- How sixteenth-century books redefined a medieval sundial.
Series:
History of science and medicine library, 1872-0684 ; v. 13
Medieval and early modern science ; v. 11
ISBN:
9004176659 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004176652 (hardback : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)463674451
LCCN:
2009043296
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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