De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period : the authors of the commentaries / Matteo Valleriani, editor.
Valleriani, Matteo.
2020
QB23
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Title De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period : the authors of the commentaries / Matteo Valleriani, editor.
ISBN 9783030308339 (electronic book)
3030308332 (electronic book)
9783030308322
Published Cham : Springer, 2020.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xv, 396 pages) : illustrations
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-30
Call Number QB23
Dewey Decimal Classification 509
Summary This open access book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe. It features essays that take a close look at key intellectuals and how they engaged with the main ideas of this qualitative introduction to geocentric cosmology. Johannes de Sacrobosco compiled his Tractatus de sphaera during the thirteenth century in the frame of his teaching activities at the then recently founded University of Paris. It soon became a mandatory text all over Europe. As a result, a tradition of commentaries to the text was soon established and flourished until the second half of the 17th century. Here, readers will find an informative overview of these commentaries complete with a rich context. The essays explore the educational and social backgrounds of the writers. They also detail how their careers developed after the publication of their commentaries, the institutions and patrons they were affiliated with, what their agenda was, and whether and how they actually accomplished it. The editor of this collection considers these scientific commentaries as genuine scientific works. The contributors investigate them here not only in reference to the work on which it comments but also, and especially, as independent scientific contributions that are socially, institutionally, and intellectually contextualized around their authors.
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Chapter 1. Authors and Commentaries on The Sphere of Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period
Chapter 2. A Lathe and the Material Sphere: Astronomical Technique at the Origins of the Cosmographical Handbook
Chapter 3. Pedro Sánchez Ciruelo. A Commentary to The Sphere with a Defense of Astrology
Chapter 4. Francesco Capuano da Manfredonia.
Chapter 5. Conrad Tocklers Research Agenda
Chapter 6. John of Glogów
Chapter 7. Sacroboscos Sphere in Spain and Portugal
Chapter 8. Oronce Fine: From the Edition of Sacroboscos Sphere (1516) to the Cosmographia (1532)
Chapter 9. The Reception of Cosmography in Vienna during the "Integral Humanism"
Chapter 10. Borrowers and Innovators in the Printing History of Sacrobosco: The Case of the "in-octavo" Tradition
Chapter 11. The Sphere of Elie Vinet and Guillaume des Bordes: Networks and Knowledges Building
Chapter 12. André do Avelar and the teaching of Sacroboscos Sphæra in the University of Coimbra
Chapter 13. Franco Burgersdijk (1590-1635): Author of the Dutch Tractatus de sphaera.

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