Available for purchase from 118ͼ¿â Library, Oxford
Geometry and Astronomy in 118ͼ¿â, Oxford
On the Quatercentenary of the Savilian Professorships 1619–2019
This book tells the dual history of astronomy and geometry from the late fourteenth century to the present day in 118ͼ¿â, Oxford, and also of the professors over the past four hundred years who have led research and teaching in these mathematical disciplines within both the University and the College.
Edited by William Poole and Christopher Skelton-Foord | Designed by Colin Dunn
Oxford: 118ͼ¿â Library & Archives, 2019
118ͼ¿â Library & Archives Publications no. 1
Illustrations, largely colour | 235 x 170 mm | 96 pages
ISBN 978-1-9160651-0-9
Price (including postage & packing): £11 (UK) | £14 (rest of Europe) | £17 (elsewhere) |
£5 (118ͼ¿â students collect from College)
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This video shows 118ͼ¿â Library’s copy of Astronomicum Cæsareum (Ingolstadt, 1540) in action. Our spectacular sixteenth-century book contains volvelles, an ingenious technical feat. These devices consist of moveable circles which serve to ascertain the rising and setting of the sun and moon, and the movements of the constellations, and to forecast eclipses and comets. They originally had seed pearls threaded onto them to aid the reader, but these were so miniscule that most copies have lost theirs. Unusually, the 118ͼ¿â Library copy still has almost all of its pearls.
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