John W Hessler

A Renaissance Globemaker's Toolbox

Johannes Schöner and the Revolution of Modern Science 1475-1550

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Produktbeschreibung

The first English language book about the extraordinary life and work of mathematician and scientist Johannes Schöner (d. 1543).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Giles
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 198mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 855g
• ISBN-13: 9781907804168
• ISBN-10: 1907804161
• Artikelnr.: 36763547

Autorenporträt

John W. Hessler is Senior Cartographic Librarian in the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress, Washington D.C.. He is currently a Scholar in Residence at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, where he is researching the Paul Krueger Archive in the Law Library.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Daniel De Simone
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: For Posterity: The Miscellanies of Johannes Schöner
The Schöner Sammelband at the Library of Congress
- 12 Sheets of the Waldseemüller 1507 World Map
- 13 Sheets of the Waldseemüller 1516 Carta marina, including Schöner
manuscript
- Celestial globe gores
- Terrestrial gore fragments
- Celestial gore fragments
- Dürer-Stabius star chart
Chapter 1: Cartography in the Margins: How Johannes Schöner Read His Maps
Chapter 2: Johannes Schöner Makes a Globe
Chapter 3: It's All in the Stars: Natal Astrology and Johannes Schöner's
Three Books
Chapter 4: The Earth Begins to Move: Rheticus and the Early Reception of
Copernican Astronomy
Conclusion: Johannes Schöner and the Birth of Modern Science
Endnotes
Index