Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue: Vol. 23: [Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures]

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23x15cm, 567 pages., Issue 1-5 is a special issue devoted to Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures. Minor wear. VG. Volume 23, Issues 1-6 (2017) in TWO VOLUMES.TWO VOLUMES (comprised of 6 issues). Complete for Volume 23 [2017]. This is a collection of six issues [bound in two] of the six-times-annually-published periodical ¨"Medieval Encounters : Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue", each separately bound in original wrappers, complete for Volume 23 [2017]. Each issue contains between 3 to 14 papers + reviews & notices. Issue no. 1-5 is a special issue devoted to the theme "Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures" [478 pages]. Contents include: Astrolabes as Eclipse Computers: Four Early Arabic Texts on Construction and Use of the Safiha Kusufiyya; The Astrolabe Finger Ring of Bonerus de Latis: Study, Latin Text and English Translation with Commentary; Knowledge in Motion: An Early European Astrolabe and its Possible Medieval Itinerary; Saphaeae and Hay'at: The Debate Between Instrumentalism and Realism in al-Andalus; European Astrolabes to ca. 1500: An Ordered List; Changing the Angle of Vision;: Astrolabe Dials on Astronomical Clocks; A New Approach to the Star Data of Early Planispheric Astrolabes; etc. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 029207

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