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Elly Dekker is a Dutch astronomer and science historian, specialising in the history of astronomy. She is the author of numerous scholarly papers on such varied subjects as the discovery of the southern celestial sky, mediaeval astrolabes and quadrants, Renaissance globes and the history of Renaissance celestial maps. Her books include Globes at Greenwich. A Catalogue of the Globes and Armillary Spheres in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich (Oxford, Greenwich, 1999); Catalogue of Orbs, Spheres and Globes. Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza (Florence, 2004); Illustrating the Phaenomena: Celestial Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Oxford, 2013) and Alessandro Piccolomini’s Early Astronomical Works: II. An Examination of Their Scientific Content (Cham 2024).

Kristen Lippincott is a London-based historian, who has published widely on topics relating to Renaissance art history, cultural history and the history of science and scientific instruments. She has spent most of her career working in and with museums, most notably as the Director of the Royal Observatory Greenwich. Her books include The Aratea ascribed to Germanicus. MS 735C Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales. Commentary to the Facsimile Edition and Latin Edition with English translation (Lucerne 2019); The Curious History of the Text and Illustrations of Hyginus’s De Astronomia (Cologne 2021); Liber Astrologiae. Abū Macshar Treatise (Barcelona 2022) and Alessandro Piccolomini’s Early Astronomical Works: I. An Exploration of Their Cultural Significance [with Editions and Translations of De la Sfera del Mondo and De le Stelle Fisse] (Cham 2024).