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  1. Improving instruments: equatoria, astrolabes, and the practices of monastic astronomy in late medieval England

    Falk, SebUniversity of Cambridge2016

    … John Westwyk (d. c. 1400), a Benedictine monk of Tynemouth Priory and St Albans Abbey. His draft description of the construction and use of an astronomical instrument, with accompanying tables, provides an opportunity to reconstruct the practices of an unexceptional astronomer. The first chapter …

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