Monks, Manuscripts and Sundials

The Navicula in Medieval England
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-17665-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 683 g

Reihe: Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science

The navicula sundial, because of its rarity and attractive form, has interested curators and historians alike: Derek J. de Solla Price described it as “one of the most ingenious and sophisticated mathematical artefacts of the Middle Ages”. Although apparently a specifically English instrument, there is much debate about when and where it was invented, and about who made and used the five surviving medieval examples. This book brings together for the first time evidence from the surviving instruments, and written sources including four previously unknown texts describing how to make or use the instrument, along with previously unknown copies of the text on which previous studies were based.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eagleton, Catherine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Christliche Orden und Vereinigungen, Ordensgeschichte, Mönchstum
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christliche Kunst und Kultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures

1. Monks, manuscripts and sundials: the navicula in medieval England
2. Five fifteenth-century sundials
3. Manuscript sources about the navicula
4. Calendar tables and latitude lists
5. Texts, instruments, diagrams and relations between them
6. Using a sundial, understanding the heavens?
7. The navicula and the organum ptolomei
8. How sixteenth-century books redefined a medieval sundial

Appendix One Group A manuscripts
Appendix Two Group A manuscripts
Appendix Three Group A manuscripts
Appendix Four Group A stemmatics
Appendix Five The group B navicula manuscripts
Appendix Six The group C navicula manuscript
Appendix Seven The group D navicula manuscript
Appendix Eight The group E navicula text
Appendix Nine Organum Ptolomei ita sit…

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Catherine Eagleton, PhD (2005) in History of Science, University of Cambridge, is a curator at the British Museum and an Affiliated Research Scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.