Changing the Angle of Vision: Astrolabe Dials on Astronomical Clocks.

From the middle of the fourteenth century until the Early Modern period, several monumental astronomical clocks were erected in Europe, and on many of them astrolabe dials were placed. On a group of earlier clocks, "southern astrolabes" (i.e. with stereographic projection from the North Pole) were e...

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Published in:	Medieval Encounters Vol. 23; no. 1-5; pp. 404 - 421
Main Author:	Oestmann, Günther
Format:	Article
Published:	Brill Academic Publishers 2017
Subjects:	Astrolabes Astronomical clocks Spherical projection Astronomical instruments Islamic astronomy
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