Illustrating the Phaenomena
Subtitle: Celestial Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780199609697
Subjects: Stars, atlases
Description: In this volume all extant celestial maps and globes made before 1500 are described and analysed. It also discusses the astronomical sources involved in making these artefacts in antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Islamic world and the European Renaissance before 1500.