Monks, Manuscripts and Sundials
The Navicula in Medieval England
Catherine Eagleton, British Museum and University of Cambridge
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Biographical note
Catherine Eagleton, PhD (2005) in History of Science, University of Cambridge, is a curator at the British Museum and an Affiliated Research Scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.
Readership
Instrument scholars, including serious amateurs who are members of scientific instrument and sundial societies. Medieval historians and historians of science.
Reviews
'Eagleton has substantially advanced our knowledge of this curious instrument. [...] Her book provides much new grist for the scholarly mill, thanks to the new light it sheds on the interface between artefacts, texts, practices and problems of transmission.' Michael H. Shank, University of Wisconsin-Madison
British Journal for the History of Science, 2011, December, 580-581 pp.
British Journal for the History of Science, 2011, December, 580-581 pp.
Table of contents
List of figures
1. Monks, manuscripts and sundials: the navicula in medieval England
2. Five fifteenth-century sundials
3. Manuscript sources about the navicula
4. Calendar tables and latitude lists
5. Texts, instruments, diagrams and relations between them
6. Using a sundial, understanding the heavens?
7. The navicula and the organum ptolomei
8. How sixteenth-century books redefined a medieval sundial
Appendix One Group A manuscripts
Appendix Two Group A manuscripts
Appendix Three Group A manuscripts
Appendix Four Group A stemmatics
Appendix Five The group B navicula manuscripts
Appendix Six The group C navicula manuscript
Appendix Seven The group D navicula manuscript
Appendix Eight The group E navicula text
Appendix Nine Organum Ptolomei ita sit…
Bibliography
Index
1. Monks, manuscripts and sundials: the navicula in medieval England
2. Five fifteenth-century sundials
3. Manuscript sources about the navicula
4. Calendar tables and latitude lists
5. Texts, instruments, diagrams and relations between them
6. Using a sundial, understanding the heavens?
7. The navicula and the organum ptolomei
8. How sixteenth-century books redefined a medieval sundial
Appendix One Group A manuscripts
Appendix Two Group A manuscripts
Appendix Three Group A manuscripts
Appendix Four Group A stemmatics
Appendix Five The group B navicula manuscripts
Appendix Six The group C navicula manuscript
Appendix Seven The group D navicula manuscript
Appendix Eight The group E navicula text
Appendix Nine Organum Ptolomei ita sit…
Bibliography
Index
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