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Source: Lewis Evans Library: catalogue entry | other books by Stöffler
One of the most influential books on a scientific instrument ever to be published. As his title suggests, Stöffler treats the astrolabe as something to be made and used: first he takes his readers through the construction of an astrolabe, in the sense of laying out its patterns of lines; then he explains how it may be used, through a series of worked examples of solving problems in astronomy, horology and surveying. Many authors of the many books on mathematical instruments to be published in the 16th century followed Stöffler’s example.
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