Renaissance Astrolabes and Their Makers
Gerard L'Estrange Turner
Contents: Preface Later medieval and renaissance instruments The craftsmanship of the 'Carolingian' astrolabe, IC 3042 A critique use first point Aries in dating astrolabes astrolabe presented by Regiomontanus to Cardinal Bessarion 1462 An belonging Galileo? Florentine workshop Giovan Battista Giusti, 1556-c.1575 attributed Gerard Mercator, c.1570 three Mercator Tudor Thomas Gemini its relationship an astrological disc 1551 for Alessandro Farnese, Duke Parma, Erasmus Habermel unusual Elizabethan silver globe Charles Whitwell Zinner's ghosts a curious date:1576 Index.