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Book A Supplement to a Catalogue of Scientific Instruments

Download or read book A Supplement to a Catalogue of Scientific Instruments written by J. A. (coll) Billmeir and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Supplement to a Catalogue of Scientific Instruments in the Collection of J A  Billmeir

Download or read book A Supplement to a Catalogue of Scientific Instruments in the Collection of J A Billmeir written by Museum of the history of science (Oxford) and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Supplement to a Catalogue of Scientific Instruments in the Collection of J A  Billmeir

Download or read book A Supplement to a Catalogue of Scientific Instruments in the Collection of J A Billmeir written by Museum of the history of science (Oxford) and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A supplement to a catalogue of scientific instruments   in the collection of J  A  Billmeir  Exhibited by the Museum of the History of Science  Oxford

Download or read book A supplement to a catalogue of scientific instruments in the collection of J A Billmeir Exhibited by the Museum of the History of Science Oxford written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book World maps for Finding the Direction and Distance to Mecca

Download or read book World maps for Finding the Direction and Distance to Mecca written by David King and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-06 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two remarkable Iranian world-maps were discovered in 1989 and 1995. Both are made of brass and date from 17th-century Iran. Mecca is at the centre and a highly sophisticated longitude and latitude grid enables the user to determine the direction and distance to Mecca for anywhere in the world between Andalusia and China. Prior to the discovery of these maps it was thought that such cartographic grids were conceived in Europe ca. 1910. This richly-illustrated book presents an overview of the ways in which Muslims over the centuries have determined the sacred direction towards Mecca (qibla) and then describes the two world-maps in detail. The author shows that the geographical data derives from a 15th-century Central Asian source and that the mathematics underlying the grid was developed in 9th-century Baghdad.

Book In Synchrony with the Heavens  Volume 2 Instruments of Mass Calculation

Download or read book In Synchrony with the Heavens Volume 2 Instruments of Mass Calculation written by David King and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first investigation of one of the main interests of astronomy in Islamic civilization, namely, timekeeping by the sun and stars and the regulation of the astronomically-defined times of Muslim prayer. The study is based on over 500 medieval astronomical manuscripts first identified by the author, now preserved in libraries all over the world and originally from the entire Islamic world from the Maghrib to Central Asia and the Yemen. The materials presented provide new insights into the early development of the prayer ritual in Islam. They also call into question the popular notion that religion could not inspire serious scientific activity. Only one of the hundreds of astronomical tables discussed here was known in medieval Europe, which is one reason why the entire corpus has remained unknown until the present. A second volume, also to be published by Brill, deals with astronomical instruments for timekeeping and other computing devices.

Book Scientific Instruments between East and West

Download or read book Scientific Instruments between East and West written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific Instruments between East and West is a collection of essays on the transmission of knowledge about scientific instruments and the trade in such instruments between the Eastern and Western worlds.

Book Scientific Instruments

Download or read book Scientific Instruments written by Peter R. De Clercq and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scientific Instruments

Download or read book Scientific Instruments written by Harriet Wynter and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Renaissance Astrolabes and their Makers

Download or read book Renaissance Astrolabes and their Makers written by Gerard L'E. Turner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the archaeology of science, or what can be learnt from the systematic examination of the artefacts made by precision craftsmen for the study of the natural world. An international authority on historical scientific instruments, Gerard Turner has collected here his essays on European astrolabes and related topics. By 1600 the astrolabe had nearly ceased to be made and used in the West, and before that date there was little of the source material for the study of instruments that exists for more modern times. It is necessary to 'read' the instruments themselves, and astrolabes in particular are rich in all sorts of information, mathematical, astronomical, metallurgical, in addition to what they can reveal about craftsmanship, the existence of workshops, and economic and social conditions. There is a strong forensic element in instrument research, and Gerard Turner's achievements include the identification of three astrolabes made by Gerard Mercator, all of whose instruments were thought to have been destroyed. Other essays deal with the discovery of an important late 16th-century Florentine workshop, and of a group of mid-15th-century German astrolabes linked to Regiomontanus.

Book Pike s Illustrated Catalogue of Scientific Instruments

Download or read book Pike s Illustrated Catalogue of Scientific Instruments written by Benjamin Pike and published by Norman Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: