THE MERIDIANA OF ULUGH BEG IN HAGIA SOPHIA, CONSTANTINOPLE
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title ABSTRACT /title There is a tradition that in 1437 the Mongol astronomer, Ulugh Beg, laid out a MERIDIANA in the church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. This MERIDIANA would predate the famous, large-scale interior meridiane constructed from 1475 onwards primarily in Italy. It is the purpose of this paper to demonstrate that this claim for a MERIDIANA in Hagia Sophia cannot be sustained, but was generated by the astronomer Leonardo Ximenes in the eighteenth century on the basis of a misunderstanding of a statement by the seventeenth-century astronomer, John Greaves.
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THE MERIDIANA OF ULUGH BEG IN HAGIA SOPHIA, CONSTANTINOPLE
In: NunciusAbstract
title ABSTRACT /title There is a tradition that in 1437 the Mongol astronomer, Ulugh Beg, laid out a MERIDIANA in the church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. This MERIDIANA would predate the famous, large-scale interior meridiane constructed from 1475 onwards primarily in Italy. It is the purpose of this paper to demonstrate that this claim for a MERIDIANA in Hagia Sophia cannot be sustained, but was generated by the astronomer Leonardo Ximenes in the eighteenth century on the basis of a misunderstanding of a statement by the seventeenth-century astronomer, John Greaves.
| All Time | Past Year | Past 30 Days | |
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| Abstract Views | 185 | 18 | 0 |
| Full Text Views | 74 | 1 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 12 | 3 | 0 |