Monks, manuscripts, and sundials
Subtitle: the navicula in medieval England
By: by Catherine Eagleton.
Series: History of scienceand medicine library -- v. 13
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004176652
Subjects: Sundials -- History -- To 1500 -- Sources; Sundials -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources
Genres: Sources
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Monks, manuscripts, and sundials : the navicula in medieval England; title: Five fifteenth-century sundials; title: Manuscript sources about the navicula; title: Calendar tables and latitude lists; title: Texts, instruments, diagrams, and relations between them; title: Using a sundial, understanding the heavens?; title: The navicula and the organum ptolomei; title: How sixteenth-century books redefined a medieval sundial.