List Books » The Book of Michael of Rhodes: A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript, Volume 2: Transcription and Translation
Authors: Pamela O. Long (Editor), David McGee (Editor), Alan M. Stahl
ISBN-13: 9780262195904, ISBN-10: 0262195909
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: September 2009
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Pamela O. Long is an independent historian who has published widely in medieval and Renaissance history of science and technology.
David McGee, formerly Research Associate and Head of Secondary Acquisitions at the Dibner Institute's Burndy Library, is an independent scholar, working recently with the Canadian Science and Technology Museum.
Alan M. Stahl is a medieval historian specializing in Venice and is Curator of Numismatics at Princeton University. McGee, Stahl, and Long are codirectors of the Michael of Rhodes project.
The first publication and translation into English of a manuscript by a fifteenth-century Venetian seaman, including treatises on shipbuilding, mathematics, astrology, and calendrical computation.