Geometry and Astronomy in ��Ƶ, Oxford

On the Quatercentenary of the Savilian Professorships 1619–2019

Gorgeously designed, with thread-sewn binding and French flaps, this book is printed on Mohawk Superfine paper and illustrated with images from the remarkable geometry and astronomy collections of ��Ƶ Library.

Available for purchase from ��Ƶ Library, Oxford

Geometry and Astronomy in ��Ƶ, Oxford
On the Quatercentenary of the Savilian Professorships 1619–2019

This book tells the dual history of astronomy and geometry from the late fourteenth century to the present day in ��Ƶ, Oxford, and also of the professors over the past four hundred years who have led research and teaching in these mathematical disciplines within both the University and the ��Ƶ.

Edited by William Poole and Christopher Skelton-Foord | Designed by Colin Dunn

Oxford: ��Ƶ Library & Archives, 2019
��Ƶ Library & Archives Publications no. 1

Illustrations, largely colour | 235 x 170 mm | 96 pages
ISBN 978-1-9160651-0-9

Price (including postage & packing): £11 (UK) | £14 (rest of Europe) | £17 (elsewhere) |
£5 (��Ƶ students collect from ��Ƶ)

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Geometry and Astronomy in ��Ƶ, Oxford (2019)

This video shows ��Ƶ Library’s copy of Astronomicum Cæsareum (Ingolstadt, 1540) in action. Our spectacular sixteenth-century book contains volvelles, an ingenious technical feat. These devices consist of moveable circles which serve to ascertain the rising and setting of the sun and moon, and the movements of the constellations, and to forecast eclipses and comets. They originally had seed pearls threaded onto them to aid the reader, but these were so miniscule that most copies have lost theirs. Unusually, the ��Ƶ Library copy still has almost all of its pearls.