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Derek J. de Solla Price
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Derek John de Solla Price was a British physicist, historian of science, and information scientist. He was known for his investigation of the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek planetary computer
Derek de Solla Price with a model of the Antikythera mechanism
Derek de Solla Price with a model of the Antikythera mechanism
An engraving of the Tower of the Winds in Athens. A 1762 illustration reproduced by Noble and Price (1968)
An engraving of the Tower of the Winds in Athens. A 1762 illustration reproduced by Noble and Price (1968)
A Treatise on the Astrolabe
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A Treatise on the Astrolabe is a medieval instruction manual on the astrolabe, completed by Geoffrey Chaucer in 1391. Notable as technical prose from a writer better known for poetry, it describes bot
Derek J. de Solla Price
…his PhD, which he obtained in 1954, and also for a book, published the following year. He believed the work to be by Geoffrey Chaucer, who had written A Treatise on the Astrolabe, but it is now attributed to a St Albans monk called John Westwyk. Price received a Nuffield Foundation award for research in the History of science…
A so-called 'Chaucer Astrolabe' dated 1326, similar to the one Chaucer describes, British Museum
A so-called 'Chaucer Astrolabe' dated 1326, similar to the one Chaucer describes, British Museum
The back of the Astrolabe
The back of the Astrolabe
The front of the astrolabe, fully assembled
The front of the astrolabe, fully assembled
The rewle [rule], pin (with wedge) and disc for Oxford
The rewle [rule], pin (with wedge) and disc for Oxford