02553nam 2200481 450 991081444850332120210419230535.090-04-42347-810.1163/9789004423473(CKB)4100000010136691(OCoLC)1135585149(nllekb)BRILL9789004423473(MiAaPQ)EBC6178048(PPN)244235910(EXLCZ)99410000001013669120200820d2020 uy 0engurun####uuuuatxtrdacontentcrdamediardacarrierThe astronomical clock of Strasbourg cathedral function and significance /by Günther Oestmann ; English translation by Bruce W. IrwinLeiden ;Boston :Brill,[2020]©20201 online resourceScientific instruments and collections,1877-7066 ;Volume 890-04-42346-X Strasbourg Cathedral’s astronomical clock is one of the most famous and well-known astronomical clock monuments in the world. No other clock has been described and appreciated so often and in such a myriad of ways. This book gives a detailed delineation of the artistic and technical components of the 1571–74 clock and it presents the astronomical indications and the underlying conceptional framework. According to an hitherto unknown original source Günther Oestmann discovered a contemporary programmatic statement and that the clock displays four ways of determining the ascendant as described by Ptolemy. Oestmann ascertained that the Strasbourg clock is the result of a highly original reception of the architectural theory of Vitruvius and other mathematical and mechanical texts of Late Antiquity. Revised and updated translation from the German edition Die Straßburger Münsteruhr: Funktion und Bedeutung eines Kosmos-Modells des 16. Jahrhunderts. Published by GNT-Verlag in 1993.History of science and medicine library.Scientific instruments and collections ;Volume 8.Astronomical clocksFranceStrasbourgAstronomical clocksAstronomical clocksAstronomical clocks.522.5Oestmann Günther1959-1592891Irwin Bruce W.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814448503321The astronomical clock of Strasbourg cathedral4073375UNINA