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George Huxtable wrote:
> John Huth asked about astrolabes.
> ...
> Still available as a remaindered book is "Astrolabes at Greenwich", at �30,
> compared with its original price of �116, from
> www.psbooks.com.uk.
>
> The Museum for the History of Science in Oxford has made its complete
> collection of astrolabes, (the most complete one there is) available as
> high-quality images, showing complete details.
>
> A useful website is "Keith's astrolabes" at
> http://www.autodidacts.f2s.com/astro/ which includes a working model you can
> drive around.
>
> Another is James E Morrison's website at
> http://www.astrolabes.org/astrolab.htm .
>
> George
>   
I would like to add to George's list another two works that are quite 
useful in understanding the astrolabe:
Lamprey, J., /Hartmann's Praktika, A Manual for making Sundials and 
Astrolabes with the Compass and Rule, Written from 1518 to 1528 by Georg 
Hartmann,/ (Bellvue, 2002)
Lamprey, J., Gunella, A., /Stoeffler's Elucidatio, The Construction and 
Use of the Astrolabe 'Elucidatio Fabricae Ususque Astrolabii'/, 
(Cheyenne, 2007)

Then of course there are two works covering the collection of astrolabes 
at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago:
Webster, R., Webster, M., /Western Astrolabes, Historic Scientific 
Instruments of the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, Volume I/, 
(Chicago, 1998)
Webster, R., Webster, M., /Eastern Astrolabes, Historic Scientific 
Instruments of the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, Volume II/, 
(Chicago, 2009)

NavList members might also be interested with the following work as it 
deals with the mariner's astrolabe:
Stimson, A., /The Mariner's Astrolabe, A Survey of Known, Surviving Sea 
Astrolabes/, (Utrecht, 1988)

Nicol�s


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