Narrow your search

Library

KBR (1)

KU Leuven (1)

UCLouvain (1)

UGent (1)

ULiège (1)

VUB (1)


Resource type

book (2)


Language

English (1)

Multiple languages (1)


Year
From To Submit

2010 (1)

2009 (1)

Listing 1 - 2 of 2
Sort by

Book
The book of Michael of Rhodes : a fifteenth-century maritime manuscript
Authors: --- --- --- ---
ISBN: 9780262123082 9780262135030 9780262195904 0262135035 0262195909 0262123088 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) : MIT press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

In the fifteenth century, a Venetian mariner, Michael of Rhodes, wrote and illustrated a text describing his experiences in the Venetian merchant and military fleets. He included a treatise on commercial mathematics and treatments of contemporary shipbuilding practices, navigation, calendrical systems, and astrological ideas. This manuscript, "lost," or at least in unknown hands for over 400 years, has never been published or translated in its entirety until now. In volume 3, nine experts, including the editors, discuss the manuscript, its historical context, and its scholarly importance. Their essays examine the Venetian maritime world of the fifteenth century, Michael's life, the discovery of the manuscript, the mathematics in the book, the use of illustration, the navigational directions, Michael's knowledge of shipbuilding in the Venetian context, and the manuscript's extensive calendrical material.


Book
Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science (Volume 3)

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Keywords

Listing 1 - 2 of 2
Sort by