BUILDING A MODEL ASTROLABE

Dominic Ford
37 Coleridge Road, Cambridge, CB1 3PH, UK.

October 2010

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The files in this directory are the electronic materials which accompany the
author's paper, "Building a Model Astrolabe" in the Journal of the British
Astronomical Association (February 2012).  It also contains images of all of
the components which need to be printed out to build model astrolabes tailored
for a range of latitudes, which are stored in the folder <astrolabes> (full
astrolabe kits) and <astrolabe_parts> (individual images of astrolabe parts).
The astrolabe presented here is a slightly modernised version of that described
in Geoffrey Chaucer's c. 1391 Treatise on the Astrolabe, and has been
constructed following a slight modification of the prescription described in
Eisner (1975, 1976a, 1976b).

Further information can be found in the file <doc/astrolabe.pdf>, or on the
webpage <http://dcford.org.uk/astrolabe/index.html>.

The files in this directory may be duplicated, redistributed and/or modified
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any
later version. The only restriction placed on the duplication of this document
is that the copyright notices must remain intact.

This file archive can be downloaded from
<http://dcford.org.uk/astrolabe/astrolabe.zip> (zip archive).

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Dominic Ford

References

Ford, D.C., J. Brit. astr. Ass., 131(1), 33 (2012).
Chaucer, G., Treatise on the Astrolabe, in The Riverside Chaucer, ed. L.D. Benson (Boston, 1987)
Eisner, S., J. Brit. astr. Ass., 86(1), 18-29 (1975)
Eisner, S., J. Brit. astr. Ass., 86(2), 125-132 (1976a)
Eisner, S., J. Brit. astr. Ass., 86(3), 219-227 (1976b)

