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From: Gent van R.H. (no email)
Date: Thu Jun 29 2006 - 05:09:13 EDT
Wolfgang Koeberer wrote:
> They also published a catalogue of their collection
> of astrolabes by Koenraad van Cleempoel "Astrolabes
> at Greenwich" recently which I haven't seen yet - it
> is rather expensive. Because I haven't seen it I can
> only guess that it contains an explanation of the
> uses of the astrolabe.
Publisher's info
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Astronomy/?view=usa&sf=toc&ci=
9780198530695
More affordable (and still in print) is the Adler Planetarium catalogue of
Western astrolabes
http://shop.adlerplanetarium.org/catalog/display.php?product_id=593
Numerous pre-1600 Western astrolabes are displayed and discussed in detail
in
http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/epact/
See also
Numerous articles on the astrolabe in astronomy magazines can be accessed
via
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html
by entering 'astrolabe' as title or abstract word. However, disregard the
hits with 'prism astrolabe' or 'photoelectric astrolabe' as these refer to
completely different instruments.
Rob van Gent
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