De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period the authors of the commentaries

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Valleriani, Matteo. editor (editor)
Formato: Electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham Springer Nature 2020
Cham : 2020.
Edición:First edition 2020.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009431283406719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 Tockler’s Research Agenda
  • Chapter 6. John of Glogów
  • Chapter 7. Sacrobosco’s Sphere in Spain and Portugal
  • Chapter 8. Oronce Fine: From the Edition of Sacrobosco’s 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 Knowledge’s Building
  • Chapter 12. André do Avelar and the teaching of Sacrobosco’s Sphæra in the University of Coimbra
  • Chapter 13. Franco Burgersdijk (1590–1635): Author of the Dutch Tractatus de sphaera.