Document Details Astronomische Instrumente:
Number of documents found: 1
- Title: Astronomische Instrumente
- Author: Ernst Zinner
- Publisher: Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandluing
Other Keywords: sundials astrolabes, sextants,
ISBN: 3 406 03301 6
Language: GER
Notes: The classic exhaustive and difinitive German text on the history of astronomical instruments. A general 226 page overview of the subject with 13 illustarttions and with 80 plates of photographs, a fifty page index, a 12 page bibliography, plus 370 pages devoted to descriptions of specific instruments (alphabetical by maker). Short traty on Clepsyras. Much on stationary and pocket sundials, astrolabs, teaching instruments, surveying isntruments, observation and measuring istruments.
Edition: 1972, reprint of second edition -- Copyright: 1956
Kind: Book
Type: Scientific instrument
Geographic area: Germany
Topic: History
Organization: NA/other
Pages: 768 -- Height in cm: 23
Print Status: 2 (1 means in print - 2 means out of print)
Entered By: FMM
BHM No: 9713 - Publisher: Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandluing
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