This site contains a copy of THE SAXL PROJECT, which provides illustrations and explanatory text concerning more than 200 medieval and renaissance manuscripts dealing with the history of astronomy and astrology. There is also a working bibliography and sets of comparative images of the constellations.
The site has been created by Kristen Lippincott in collaboration with the Warburg Institute, University of London. Kristen, who is currently completing a book on the iconography of the constellations from antiquity to the Renaissance, has published extensively on subjects relating to art history, cultural history, the history of science and on scientific instruments. The site contains PDFs of all her scholarly PUBLICATIONS to date.
Kristen has spent more than 20 years working in museums in Great Britain. Most recently, from 2000-2006, she was Deputy Director of the National Maritime Museum; and, before that, she was the Director of the Royal Observatory Greenwich and led the campaign to celebrate Greenwich as 'the Home of Time' leading up to the millennium.
In 2006, she set up the Exhibitions Team, a consortium of museum professionals specialising in heritage consultancy, project management, curatorial and conservation issues and 2-D and 3-D design. The site provides a link to THE EXHIBITIONS TEAM website
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