Andalò di Negro's \textit{De compositione astrolabii}: a critical edition with English translation and notes

DOI10.1007/S00407-019-00235-XMaRDI QIDQ2328148zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dominique Raynaud, Samuel Gessner, Bernardo Mota

Publication date 9 October 2019

Published in Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-019-00235-x

zbMATH Keywords

stereographic projection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in Late Antiquity and medieval Europe (01A35) Collected or selected works; reprintings or translations of classics (01A75)

Review text

This is a critical edition of the Latin text of Andalò di Negro's \textit{De compositione astrolabii}, together with its English translation and commentary. It uses eight manuscripts to provide the most complete text ever published. Among other things, its interest lies in being ``one of the rare Latin texts presenting the principles of the stereographic projection which underlie the construction of the astrolabe.

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