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SCIENT IFIC INSTRUMENTS
AND
MUSEU MS
DE DIVERSIS ARTIBUS
COLLECTION DE TRA VAUX
DEL' ACADEMIE INTERNATIONALE
D'HISTOIRE DES SCIENCES
COLLECTION OF STUDIES
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY
OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
DIRECTION
EDITORS
EMMANUEL
ROBERT
POULLE
HALLEUX
TOME 59 (N.S. 22)
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE XXth INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE (Liege, 20-26 July 1997)
VOLUMEXV I
SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
AND
MUSE UMS
Edited
by
Maurice
DORIKENS
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The XX
1h
International Congress of
History of Science was organized by
the Belgian National Committee for
Logic, History and Philosophy of
Science with the support of :
Banque Nationale de Belgique
Carlson Wagonlit Travel -
Incentive Travel House
Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie
de la Ville de Liege
Club liegeois des Exportateurs
Cockerill Sambre Group
ICSU
Credit Communal
Ministere de la Politique scientifique
Derouaux Ordina sprl
Academie Royale de Belgique
Disteel Cold s.a.
Koninklijke Academie van Belgie
Etilux s.a.
FNRS
Fabrimetal Liege - Luxembourg
FWO
Generale Bank n.v. -
Communaute fram;;aise de Belgique
Generale de Banque s.a.
Region Wallonne
Service des Affaires culturelles de la Ville Interbrew
L'Esperance Commerciale
de Liege
Maison de la Metallurgie et de l'Industrie
Service de l'Enseignement de la Ville
de Liege
de Liege
Office des Produits wallons
Universite de Liege
Peeters
Comite Sluse asbl
Federation du Tourisme de la Province
Peket de Houyeu
Petrofina
de Liege
College Saint-Louis
Rescolie
Institut d'Enseignement superieur
Sabena
"Les Rivageois"
SNCB
Societe chimique Prayon Rupel
Academic Press
SPE Zone Sud
Agora-B eranger
TEC Liege - Verviers
APRIL
Vulcain Industries
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2002 Brepols Publishers n.v., Tumhout, Belgium
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ISBN 2-503-51369-7
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword .......................................................................................................... 9
Maurice DORIKENS
Part one
THE HISTORY OF GNOMONIC S
Egyptian shadow clocks ................................................................................. 13
A.
Sarah SYMONS
Determining the Equinox in Alexandria :
what were Ptolemy's rings used for? .......................................................... 21
Liba TAUB
Sunlight and shadows .................................................................................... 29
Allan
A.
MILLS
The old and the new Florentine gnomon ...................................................... 45
Carlo TRIARICO
Projections geometriques et gnomonique au
xv11°
siecle : exemplarite
et singularite de Girard Desargues (1591-1661) ........................................... 55
Didier BESSOT
Medieval Islamic horary quadrants for specific latitudes :
their influence on the European tradition ...................................................... 73
Maria Merce VILADRICH GRAU
Le cadran astronomique, geographique et lunaire du Pere
Emmanuel de Viviers (1737) suivi d'une Bibliographie gnomonique
de langue frarn,;aise ..................................................................................... 109
Jean-Michel FAIDIT
Part two
NATIONAL INVENTORIES OF HISTORICAL SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
Instruments, inventories and catalogues
R.G.W. ANDERSON ................................................................................. 145
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