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Title

Penn Library's Library's LJS 487 - [Treatises on astronomical instruments].(Video Orientation)

Authors

Dot PorterFollow

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Date of this Version

3-20-2023

Comments

Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's LJS 487, an anonymous treatise on constructing and using a horologium diei et noctis (combined sun dial and nocturnal), perhaps missing its first leaf, with 4 small tables (f. 4v, 6r, 6v, 8r). The uses include telling time of day and night, determining the times of sunrise and sunset and the precession of equinoxes and solstices, and measuring the height of stars. The first pages of an incomplete treatise on constructing a instrument for measuring angles called a baculus Jacob (called cross-staff or Jacob's staff in English, arbalestrille in French) follow.

Written in eastern France in the 16th century, perhaps Franche-Comté or Lyonnais in the first half of the 16th century (based on script and watermarks).

Record on Franklin, with link to a digital copy: https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9956428933503681

Record on Internet Archive, with a link to PDF: https://archive.org/details/ljs487

Link to eBook

http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/28

Link to OPENN

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs487.html

Keywords

Astronomy -- Early works to 1800, Astronomy, Astronomical instruments -- Early works to 1800, Sundials -- Early works to 1800, Sundials, Time measurements -- Early works to 1800, Time measurements, Astronomical instruments, Codices, Treatises, Tables (documents), Manuscripts Latin, Manuscripts Renaissance

Disciplines

Astrophysics and Astronomy | History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Renaissance Studies

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Recommended Citation

Porter, D. (2023, March 20). Penn Library's Library's LJS 487 - [Treatises on astronomical instruments].(Video Orientation). [Video file.] Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_video/223