1. Preliminaries -- 2. Celestial cartography in antiquity -- 3. The descriptive tradition in the Middle Ages -- 4. Islamic celestial cartography -- 5. The mathematical tradition in medieval Europe
Summary
In this volume all extant celestial maps and globes made before 1500 are described and analysed. It also discusses the astronomical sources involved in making these artefacts in antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Islamic world and the European Renaissance before 1500
