Dutch astronomer, science historian and museum curator

Illustrating the phaenomena : celestial cartography in antiquity and the Middle Ages / Elly Dekker.

Globes at Greenwich : a catalogue of the globes and armillary spheres in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich / Elly Dekker ; with contributions from Silke Ackermann [and others] ; edited by Kristen Lippincott, Pieter van der Merwe, and Maria Blyzinsky.

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Illustrating the phaenomena : celestial cartography in antiquity and the Middle Ages / Elly Dekker.

Globes at Greenwich : a catalogue of the globes and armillary spheres in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich / Elly Dekker ; with contributions from Silke Ackermann [and others] ; edited by Kristen Lippincott, Pieter van der Merwe, and Maria Blyzinsky.