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The Astronomical Clock Of Strasbourg Cathedral Function And Significance Scientific Instruments And Collections Illustrated Gnther Oestmann

Name: The Astronomical Clock Of Strasbourg Cathedral Function And Significance Scientific Instruments And Collections Illustrated Gnther Oestmann
SKU: BELL-25326164
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SKU: BELL-25326164

The Astronomical Clock Of Strasbourg Cathedral Function And Significance Scientific Instruments And Collections Illustrated Gnther Oestmann

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Publisher: BRILL

File Extension: PDF

File size: 18.31 MB

Pages: 344

Author: Günther Oestmann

ISBN: 9789004423466, 900442346X

Language: English

Year: 2020

Edition: Illustrated

Volume: 8

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The Astronomical Clock Of Strasbourg Cathedral Function And Significance Scientific Instruments And Collections Illustrated Gnther Oestmann by Günther Oestmann 9789004423466, 900442346X instant download after payment.

Strasbourg Cathedral’s astronomical clock is one of the most famous monuments to Time in the world. No other clock has been described and appreciated so often and in such a myriad of ways. There were three clocks built consecutively within the cathedral: the earlier fourteenth century clock has left little trace; a second clock was realized in 1570-1574; while the nineteenth century clock began as a proposal for repairs, but was intended by its maker as a replacement clock. This book gives a detailed outline of the artistic and technical components of the second clock, much of which survives, and it describes the astronomical indications and its underlying conceptual framework. The author has discovered a hitherto disregarded contemporary statement that the clock displays four ways of determining the ascendant as described by Ptolemy. He also shows that the Strasbourg clock is the result of a highly original reception of the architectural theory of Vitruvius and other mathematical and mechanical texts of Late Antiquity.
Revised and updated translation from the German edition Die Straßburger Münsteruhr: Funktion und Bedeutung eines Kosmos-Modells des 16. Jahrhunderts. Published by GNT-Verlag in 1993.