Alessandro Piccolomini’s Early Astronomical Works: Set of Volumes I + II

2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-76964-1
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 553 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Historical & Cultural Astronomy

This is a set offering the Springer books “Alessandro Piccolomini’s Early Astronomical Works: I. An Exploration of Their Cultural Significance” (ISBN 978-3-031-56785-8) and “Alessandro Piccolomini’s Early Astronomical Works: II. An Examination of Their Scientific Content” (ISBN 978-3-031-56329-4).

They present the first detailed scientific examination of Alessandro Piccolomini’s two early astronomical works – and .

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lippincott, Kristen

Dekker, Elly

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astronomische Beobachtung: Observatorien, Instrumente, Methoden
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Alessandro Piccolomini’s Early Astronomical Works: I. An Exploration of Their Cultural Significance” (ISBN 978-3-031-56785-8).- Alessandro Piccolomini’s Early Astronomical Works: II. An Examination of Their Scientific Content (ISBN 978-3-031-56329-4).

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Kristen Lippincott is a London-based historian, specialising in art history, cultural history, the history of science and scientific instruments. She has spent most of her career working in and with museums, most notably as the Director of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, Deputy Director of the National Maritime Museum in London and as a Founding Director of The Exhibitions Team. She is currently Director of the Saxl Project.

Her academic affiliations include the Warburg Institute and University of Chicago. Her research has been supported by a series of prestigious academic awards and fellowships, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the J Paul Getty Trust and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. During the academic year 1987-88, she was a Fellow at the Harvard University’s Center for Renaissance Studies at the Vila I Tatti in Florence and in 2003-04, she was Visiting Professor there.

She is the author of numerous scholarly articles, and her books include:  , Dorling Kindersley/ Eyewitness Science series, London (etc.): Dorling Kindersley, 1994; [exhibition catalogue, London, the National Maritime Museum, 1 December 1999 - 28 September 2000], London: Merrell Holberton, 1999 (translated into French (Flammarion), Spanish (Grijablo), Dutch (Sluyters), Korean (Pun-run-soop Publishing) and Hungarian (Perfekt);, London: National Maritime Museum, 2007; , Lucerne: Quaternio Verlag, 2019; and De Astronomia, Cologne: Albireo Verlag, 2021. Most recently, she contributed to an edition, translation and iconographic examination of  the British Library manuscript attributed to Georgius Zothorus Zaparus  Fendulus, Sloane Ms 3983 , in Liber Astrologiae. Abu Ma'shar Treatise, Barcelona: M. Moleiro, 2023.

Dr Elly Dekker is a Dutch astronomer and science historian, specialising in the history of astronomy. She studied theoretical physics at Utrecht University. In 1975, she obtained a PhD. in astronomy at Leiden University with the thesis supervised by Hendrik C. van de Hulst.

From 1978-88 she was curator at the Museum Boerhaave in Leiden. After 1988 she worked as an independent scholar on the history of astronomical models and instruments. From 1993-1995 she was Sackler fellow of the Royal Museums Greenwich. She was awarded the Caird Medal for her work on the museum’s globe collection in 1998.

Her books include (Leiden, 1987); with Peter van der Krogt, (Zwemmer, London, 1993); (Oxford, Greenwich, 1999); (Florence, 2004); and (Oxford, 2013). Her papers comprise studies on the discovery of the southern celestial sky, on medieval astrolabes and quadrants, on Renaissance globes, and on the history of Renaissance celestial maps.