{"product_id":"9783031769641","title":"Alessandro Piccolomini’s Early Astronomical Works: Set of Volumes I + II","description":"\u003ch3\u003eHistorical \u0026amp; Cultural Astronomy\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eAlessandro Piccolomini’s Early Astronomical Works: Set of Volumes I + II\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eKristen Lippincott | Elly Dekker\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eScience \/ Physics \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a set offering the Springer books “\u003cstrong\u003eAlessandro Piccolomini’s Early Astronomical Works: I. An Exploration of Their Cultural Significance\u003c\/strong\u003e” (ISBN 978-3-031-56785-8) and “\u003cstrong\u003eAlessandro Piccolomini’s Early Astronomical Works: II. An Examination of Their Scientific Content\u003c\/strong\u003e” (ISBN 978-3-031-56329-4).\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThey present the first detailed scientific examination of Alessandro Piccolomini’s two early astronomical works – \u003cem\u003eDe la Sfera del Mondo\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDe le Stelle Fisse\u003c\/em\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDr Kristen Lippincott\u003c\/strong\u003e is a London-based historian, specialising in art history, cultural history, the history of science and scientific instruments. She has spent most of her career working in and with museums, most notably as the Director of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, Deputy Director of the National Maritime Museum in London and as a Founding Director of The Exhibitions Team. She is currently Director of the Saxl Project.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eHer academic affiliations include the Warburg Institute and University of Chicago. Her research has been supported by a series of prestigious academic awards and fellowships, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the J Paul Getty Trust and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. During the academic year 1987-88, she was a Fellow at the Harvard University’s Center for Renaissance Studies at the Vila I Tatti in Florence and in 2003-04, she was Visiting Professor there.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eShe is the author of numerous scholarly articles, and her books include:  \u003cem\u003eAstronomy\u003c\/em\u003e, Dorling Kindersley\/ Eyewitness Science series, London (etc.): Dorling Kindersley, 1994; \u003cem\u003eThe Story of Time\u003c\/em\u003e [exhibition catalogue, London, the National Maritime Museum, 1 December 1999 - 28 September 2000], London: Merrell Holberton, 1999 (translated into French (Flammarion), Spanish (Grijablo), Dutch (Sluyters), Korean (Pun-run-soop Publishing) and Hungarian (Perfekt);\u003cem\u003e A Guide to the Royal Observatory, Greenwich\u003c\/em\u003e, London: National Maritime Museum, 2007; \u003cem\u003eThe Aratea ascribed to\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eGermanicus. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eMS 735C Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales. Commentary to the Facsimile Edition and Latin Edition with English translation\u003c\/em\u003e, Lucerne: Quaternio Verlag, 2019; and \u003cem\u003eThe Curious History of the Text and Illustrations of \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eHyginus’s\u003c\/em\u003e De Astronomia, Cologne: Albireo Verlag, 2021. Most recently, she contributed to an edition, translation and iconographic examination of  the British Library manuscript attributed to Georgius Zothorus Zaparus  Fendulus, Sloane Ms 3983 , in Liber Astrologiae. Abū Ma'shar Treatise, Barcelona: M. Moleiro, 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDr Elly Dekker\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Dutch astronomer and science historian, specialising in the history of astronomy. She studied theoretical physics at Utrecht University. In 1975, she obtained a PhD. in astronomy at Leiden University with the thesis \u003cem\u003eSpiral structure and the dynamics of flat stellar systems\u003c\/em\u003e supervised by Hendrik C. van de Hulst.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eFrom 1978-88 she was curator at the Museum Boerhaave in Leiden. After 1988 she worked as an independent scholar on the history of astronomical models and instruments. From 1993-1995 she was Sackler fellow of the Royal Museums Greenwich. She was awarded the Caird Medal for her work on the museum’s globe collection in 1998.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eHer books include \u003cem\u003eThe Leiden Sphere. An exceptional seventeenth-century planetarium \u003c\/em\u003e(Leiden, 1987); with Peter van der Krogt, \u003cem\u003eGlobes from the Western World \u003c\/em\u003e(Zwemmer, London, 1993); \u003cem\u003eGlobes at Greenwich. A Catalogue of the Globes and Armillary Spheres in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich \u003c\/em\u003e(Oxford, Greenwich, 1999); \u003cem\u003eIstituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza: Catalogue of Orbs, Spheres and Globes \u003c\/em\u003e(Florence, 2004); and \u003cem\u003eIllustrating the Phaenomena: Celestial Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages \u003c\/em\u003e(Oxford, 2013). 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