Illustrating the Phaenomena

by Elly Dekker

In this volume all extant celestial maps and globes made before 1500 are described and analysed. It also discusses the astronomical sources involved in making these artefacts in antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Islamic world and the European Renaissance before 1500.

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Stars, atlasesStarsAtlasesHistoryEarly works to 1800Ancient AstronomyMedieval AstronomyCelestial globes

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