Monks, manuscripts and sundials the navicula in medieval England /

Main Author: Eagleton, Catherine.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Latin
Published: Leiden [Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Series:History of science and medicine library, Medieval and early modern science ; v. 13
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10439240
Table of 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.