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:

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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:

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:

Download or read book A Supplement to A Catalogue of Scientific Instruments in the Collection of J A Millmeir Esq C B E written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

Download or read book Catalogue of Scientific Instruments in the Collection of J A Billmeir Exhibited by the Museum of the History of Science Oxford written by Jack A. Billmeir and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Catalogue of Scientific Instruments from the 13th to the 19th Centuries from the Collection of J A Billmeir written by Frank Partridge & Sons, Limited and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scientific Instruments 13th 19th Century written by Museum of the History of Science and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Descriptive Catalogue of Indian Astronomical Instruments written by Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma and published by tredition. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The large masonry instruments designed by Sawai Jai Singh and erected in his five observatories in the early eighteenth century mark the culmination of a long process of development in astronomical instrumentation. But what kind of astronomical instruments were used in India before Jai Singh's time? Sanskrit texts on astronomy describe the construction and use of several types of instruments. Are any of these extant in museums? Such questions led me to an exploration of nearly a hundred museums and private collections in India, Europe and USA for about a quarter century. The present catalogue is the outcome of this exploration. This catalogue describes each instrument in the context of the related extant specimens, while laying special emphasis on the interplay between Sanskrit and Islamic traditions of instrumentation. Therefore, each instrument type is organized in a separate section identified by the letters of the alphabet. These sections begin with introductory essays on the history of the instrument type and its varieties, followed by a full technical description of every specimen, with art historical notes. Moreover, all engraved data are reproduced and interpreted as far as possible. In some 4300 pages, it contains 600 entries, with introductory essays and long extracts from two important Sanskrit texts, namely Mahendra Sūri's Yantrarāja and Padmanābha's Dhruvabhramādhikāra, along with English translations. Following a suggestion that a shorter version of the Catalogue, consisting of all the introductory essays and appendices, but excluding the catalogue proper, would be easier for the general reader to handle, this Abridged Version has been prepared. The pagination here remains the same as in the Catalogue. Those who wish to read about individual instruments can always consult the Catalogue.

Download or read book A Catalogue of Scientific Instruments 13th 19th Century written by Museum of the History of Science and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scientific Instruments 13th 19th Century The Collection of J A Billmeir Exhibited by Frank Partridge Sons and the Museum of the History of Science Oxford A Catalogue written by J. A. Billmeir and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

Download or read book Scientific Instruments 13th 19th Century written by C. H. Josten and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scientific Instruments 13th 19th Century The Collection of J A Billmeir Exhibited by the Museum of the History of Science Oxford 2nd Edition A Catalogue Compiled by C H Josten written by Jack Albert Billmeir and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.