Byzantine sundial-cum-calendar - Working reconstruction

INTRODUCTION
- Man and the stars
SECTION I
- The dawn of astronomy: Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Biblical Cosmos
SECTION II
- The cosmos becomes a sphere
SECTION III
- The geometry of the cosmos
SECTION IV
- The skies of Islam
SECTION V
- Evangelisation of the cosmos
SECTION VI
- The Renaissance of Astronomy
SECTION VII
- Galileo: the cosmos through the telescope
SECTION VIII
- From Galileo to Newton

The Christian universe
God embraces the universe
Clocks and astrolabes

Byzantine sundial-cum-calendar

Byzantine sundial-cum-calendar

French geared astrolabe

Astrolabe with monastic numbering system

Byzantine sundial-cum-calendar - Working reconstruction

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Byzantine sundial-cum-calendar
M.T. Wright, London

A working reconstruction of the Byzantine portable sundial.

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