David A. King’s Regiomontanus acrostic theory…
Posted by nickpelling on Jul 8th, 2010 - 3 comments.
Though Professor David A. King is best known, academically speaking, for his detailed study of astrolabes, I first ran across him via his epic (2001) tome "The Ciphers of the Monks" (summarised here): there, what happened was that one particular 14th century astrolabe from Picardy had some markings in an unusual number system first devised by Cistercian monks, and - ...
