Die Geometrie der Macht, die Macht der Geometrie : mathematische Instrumente und fürstliche Mechanik um 1600 aus dem Mathematisch-Physikalischen Salon / Michael Korey.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: München : Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2007Description: 64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9783422067257
  • 3422067256
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room QA71 .G465 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000037560

Includes bibliographical references.

31560000037560 14472

A small scholarly text on the math instruments of the courrt in Dresen around 1600. Although not stated the book covers the instruments which were on temporary exhibit in Munich while the Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon was beeing restored in Dresden. Covers the Rinhold/Roll mechanised celestial globe,surveying instruments, ballistic instruments, scales, sundials, chiffre instruments, automatons and the Dresden planetary clock by Baldewein 1565 (Ptolemys model). Illustrated

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