Research Guides: Medieval and Early Modern Science and Medicine: Science and Technology

Cartography

The Gallery of Maps in the Vatican by Lucio Gambi; Paul Tucker (Translator)
Call Number: G1983 .G3 1997
Two by Two: twenty-two pairs of maps from the Newberry Library illustrating 500 years of Western cartographic history by James R. Akerman; Robert W. Karrow; David Buisseret
Call Number: GA190 .A327 1993
The discovery of the world : maps of the earth and the cosmos from the David M. Stewart Collection.
Call Number: GA190 .D38 1985
The Mapping of the World: : early printed world maps 1472-1700 by Rodney W. Shirley
Call Number: Z6028 .S48 1993
Over 600 examples in both color and black and white, range from the simple to the highly decorative.
La "Descriptio mappe mundi" de Hugues de Saint-Victor by Patrick Gautier Dalché (Editor)
Call Number: GA304.H84 G38 1988
How to identify old maps and globes, with a list of cartographers, engravers, publishers, and printers concerned with printed maps and globes from c. 1500 to c. 1850.
Call Number: GA201 .L56
Located in Pius Spec Coll Archives/Rare Bks Ref
Monumenta cartographica vaticana iussu Pii XII P.M. consilio et opera procuratorum Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae.
Call Number: G1025 .A4 1944
Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
The cosmographical glasse. by William Cunningham
Call Number: GA6 .C97 1968
1559
Cosmographicus liber Petri Apiani mathematici studiose collectus. 1524 by Peter Apian
Call Number: MICROFILM 1118.4
Microfilms of rare and out-of-print books ; list 7, no. 14.

Located in the VFL
The Cosmography of Aethicus Ister by Michael W. Herren (Editor)
Call Number: G87 .A52 2011
Publication Date: 2011-05-19
[Ptolemaei Tabulae astronomicae] by Ptolemy
Call Number: BAV MSS MICROFILM 8298
Vatican City, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Cod. Vat. gr. 1291.

Located in VFL
Claudii Ptolomei Cosmographie. 1470
Call Number: BAV MSS MICROFILM 9165, 9182
Vatican City, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Cod. Vat. lat. 3810, 3811.

Located in VFL.
Ymago mundi by Pierre d'Ailly
Call Number: G94.A3 A3 1930
Texte latin et traduction française des quatre traités cosmographiques de d'Ailly et des notes marginales de Christophe Colomb

Almagests

Miniatures of Ursa minor (Little Bear) and Ursa major (Great Bear), in tables from Ptolemy's Almagest.

British Library MS Arundel 66, f. 33

Almagest. 1200
Text of Ptolemy's Almagest in Gherardo da Cremona's Latin translation.

Vatican City, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Cod. Vat. lat. 2057.

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL BAV MSS MICROFILM 7000
Almagest, ca. 1300
[Claudii Ptolemaei magnae compositionis sive Almagesti libri I-XIII]

Vatican City, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Cod. Vat. lat. 2056.

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL BAV MSS MICROFILM 7141
Almagest. 1460 by Joannes Regiomontanus
[Joannis de Monte Regio Epithome in Almagestum Ptholomei]

Biblioteca apostolica vaticana Cod. Barb. lat. 156.

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL BAV MSS MICROFILM 3449
Almagest. 1480 by George of Trebizond (Translator)
[Claudii Ptolemaei Magnae compositionis sive Almagesti libri I-XIII cum figuris geometricis Georgio Trapezuntio interprete]

Vatican City, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Cod. Vat. lat. 2054.

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL BAV MSS MICROFILM 7126

Computus

The Munich Computus: Irish computistics between Isidore of Seville and the Venerable Bede and its reception in Carolingian times by Immo Warntjes
Call Number: CE57 .W375 2010
The Kalendarium of John Somer by John Somer; Linne R. Mooney (Editor)
Call Number: PR1912 .S65 1998
Computus lunaris. 1410 by Bonus de Lucca
Call Number: BAV MSS MICROFILM 275
Publication Date: http://libcat.slu.edu/record=b2298112~S5
Vatican City, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Cod. Vat. lat. 2665.

Located in VFL
The reckoning of time by Faith Wallis (Translator); Bede Venerabilis Staff
Call Number: QB213 .B43 1999
Byrhtferth's Manual (A.D. 1011) now edited for the first time from ms. Ashmole 328 in the Bodleian library by S.J. Crawford (Translator)
Call Number: PR1119 .A2 no.177
Hypomnēma eis ta Meteōrologika. Latin
Call Number: BAV MSS MICROFILM 2525
Text of several commentaries on Aristotle, and scientific and philosophical works by Alexander of Aphrodisias, Jacobus de Duaco, Walter Burley, Giles of Rome, Siger of Brabant, and others.

Vatican City, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Cod. Ott. lat. 2165.
Oxford. St. John's College Ms. 17
Created in the first decade of the 12th century at Thorney Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Cambridgeshire. St John's 17 is a compilation of texts, tables, maps and diagrams. It is organized around the central theme of time-reckoning and calendar construction.
Abu Shaker's "Chronography" by O. Neugebauer(Translator); Abu Shaker
Call Number: CE57 .N48 1988
A treatise of the 13th century on chronological, calendrical, and astronomical matters, written by a Christian Arab, preserved in Ethiopic.
[Nicolai Germani Tabulae astronomicae]. 1465
Call Number: BAV MSS MICROFILM 6992
Vatican City, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Cod. Vat. lat. 3107.

Located in VFL