TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oestmann,Günther
AU  - Irwin, Bruce W.,
TI  - The astronomical clock of Strasbourg cathedral: function and significance 
T2  - Scientific instruments and collections,
SN  - 9789004423466
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Cathédrale de Strasbourg
KW  - Astronomical clocks
KW  - France
KW  - Strasbourg
KW  - historic
KW  - complication(s)
KW  - clock
KW  - antique
KW  - iron-geared
KW  - Strassbourg
KW  - Clock (general)
KW  - Astronomy
N1  - Revised translation of: Die Strassburger Münsteruhr: Funktion und Bedeutung eines Kosmos-Modells. Stuttgart : Verlag für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik, 1993; Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-324) and index
N2  - "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"--
ER  -