De Sphaera Of Johannes De Sacrobosco In The Early Modern Period

Author : Matteo Valleriani
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : 9783030308339

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De Sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period by Matteo Valleriani Pdf

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.

Author : Matteo Valleriani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Books-History
ISBN : 3030308340

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Author : Matteo Valleriani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 1013274628

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De Sphaera of Johannes De Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period by Matteo Valleriani Pdf

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. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : Matteo Valleriani,Andrea Ottone
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030866006

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Publishing Sacrobosco’s De sphaera in Early Modern Europe by Matteo Valleriani,Andrea Ottone Pdf

This open access volume focuses on the cultural background of the pivotal transformations of scientific knowledge in the early modern period. It investigates the rich edition history of Johannes de Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera, by far the most widely disseminated textbook on geocentric cosmology, from the unique standpoint of the many printers, publishers, and booksellers who steered this text from manuscript to print culture, and in doing so transformed it into an established platform of scientific learning. The corpus, constituted of 359 different editions featuring Sacrobosco’s treatise on cosmology and astronomy printed between 1472 and 1650, represents the scientific European shared knowledge concerned with the cosmological worldview of the early modern period until far after the publication of Copernicus’ De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in 1543. The contributions to this volume show how the academic book trade influenced the process of homogenization of scientific knowledge. They also describe the material infrastructure through which such knowledge was disseminated, and thus define the premises for the foundation of modern scientific communities.

Author : Matteo Valleriani,Giulia Giannini,Enrico Giannetto
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031113178

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Scientific Visual Representations in History by Matteo Valleriani,Giulia Giannini,Enrico Giannetto Pdf

This book explores continuity and ruptures in the historical use of visual representations in science and related disciplines such as art history and anthropology. The book also considers more recent developments that attest to the unprecedented importance of scientific visualizations, such as video recordings, animations, simulations, graphs, and enhanced realities. The volume collects historical reflections concerned with the use of visual material, visualization, and vision in science from a historical perspective, ranging across multiple cultures from antiquity until present day. The focus is on visual representations such as drawings, prints, tables, mathematical symbols, photos, data visualizations, mapping processes, and (on a meta-level) visualizations of data extracted from historical sources to visually support the historical research itself. Continuity and ruptures between the past and present use of visual material are presented against the backdrop of the epistemic functions of visual material in science. The function of visual material is defined according to three major epistemic categories: exploration, transformation, and transmission of knowledge.

Author : Stephanie A. Leitch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781009444514

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Early Modern Print Media and the Art of Observation by Stephanie A. Leitch Pdf

Early modern printmakers trained observers to scan the heavens above as well as faces in their midst. Peter Apian printed the Cosmographicus Liber (1524) to teach lay astronomers their place in the cosmos, while also printing practical manuals that translated principles of spherical astronomy into useful data for weather watchers, farmers, and astrologers. Physiognomy, a genre related to cosmography, taught observers how to scrutinize profiles in order to sum up peoples' characters. Neither Albrecht Dürer nor Leonardo escaped the tenacious grasp of such widely circulating manuals called practica. Few have heard of these genres today, but the kinship of their pictorial programs suggests that printers shaped these texts for readers who privileged knowledge retrieval. Cultivated by images to become visual learners, these readers were then taught to hone their skills as observers. This book unpacks these and other visual strategies that aimed to develop both the literate eye of the reader and the sovereignty of images in the early modern world.

Author : Anette Hagan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004681378

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Spotlights on Incunabula by Anette Hagan Pdf

The five hundred years from the 1450s to the 1950s represent an extraordinarily rich quarry for evidence of incunabula sales, collecting, and use. What book lists reveal about publishing and reading habits in late-fifteenth-century Venice, how a Scottish librarian went about acquiring incunabula during World War II, and the international workshop connections glimpsed through early Hungarian bindings are among the topics explored in this volume. Library professionals aim spotlights on French plague tracts, Deventer as a printing place, the use of incunabula in learned societies in the nineteenth century, and incunabula collecting by monks and universities in England and Scotland.

Author : William E. Engel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429628207

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The Printer as Author in Early Modern English Book History by William E. Engel Pdf

This is the first book to demonstrate how mnemotechnic cultural commonplaces can be used to account for the look, style, and authorized content of some of the most influential books produced in early modern Britain. In his hybrid role as stationer, publisher, entrepreneur, and author, John Day, master printer of England’s Reformation, produced the premier navigation handbook, state-approved catechism and metrical psalms, Book of Martyrs, England’s first printed emblem book, and Queen Elizabeth’s Prayer Book. By virtue of finely honed book trade skills, dogged commitment to evangelical nation-building, and astute business acumen (including going after those who infringed his privileges), Day mobilized the typographical imaginary to establish what amounts to—and still remains—a potent and viable Protestant Memory Art.

Author : Steven J. Reid,David McOmish
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004330733

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Neo-Latin Literature and Literary Culture in Early Modern Scotland by Steven J. Reid,David McOmish Pdf

The first detailed examination of the vibrant culture of literature produced by Scots in Latin in the late-sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Author : Ran Segev
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780271096490

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Sacred Habitat by Ran Segev Pdf

Author : Martin Korenjak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192635594

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Latin Scientific Literature, 1450-1850 by Martin Korenjak Pdf

During the early modern period, the emergence of what ultimately became modern science took place mainly in Latin, the international language of educated discourse of the era. Hundreds of thousands of scientific texts were published in Latin from the invention of print around 1450 to the demise of Latin as a language of science around 1850. Despite its importance, our knowledge of this literature is extremely limited. This book aims to provide an overview of this area, the first ever to be written. It does so, not from the perspective of a natural scientist or a historian of science, but of a literary scholar. Instead of the scientific content or methodology of the respective works, it focusses on the genres of scientific literature and their communicative functions. Latin Scientific Literature, 1450-1850 falls into two main parts. The first part ('Contexts') introduces four aspects of early modern intellectual culture which are crucial for an understanding of the scientific literature of the time: the development of science, the role of Latin, the concept of literature, and the rise of print. Part two ('Texts'), offers an overview of Neo-Latin scientific literature. Subsumed under five communicative functions - disclosing sources, presenting facts, arguing for certain positions, summarizing knowledge, and publicizing science - twenty pertinent genres are discussed.

Author : Adam Smyth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198846239

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The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Early Modern Book in England by Adam Smyth Pdf

"How were books in early modern England made, circulated, sold, stored, read, marked, altered, preserved, and destroyed? The Oxford Handbook to the History of the Book in Early Modern England provides a stimulating account of the very newest work in the field, and an exploration of how new thinking might develop. Written by scholars working at the cutting-edge of the subject, from the UK and North America, the volume combines lucidity, scholarly expertise, intellectual precision, and an imaginative structure that will enable contributors to show why the history of the book matters. This volume analyses in a lively manner the nature and role of the book in early modern England, and also considers critically how we can talk about the history of book"--

Author : Ovanes Akopyan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004442276

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Debating the Stars in the Italian Renaissance by Ovanes Akopyan Pdf

An account of the astrological controversies that arose in Renaissance Italy in the wake of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem, published in 1496.

Author : Marco Sgarbi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 3618 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319141695

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Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy by Marco Sgarbi Pdf

Gives accurate and reliable summaries of the current state of research. It includes entries on philosophers, problems, terms, historical periods, subjects and the cultural context of Renaissance Philosophy. Furthermore, it covers Latin, Arabic, Jewish, Byzantine and vernacular philosophy, and includes entries on the cross-fertilization of these philosophical traditions. A unique feature of this encyclopedia is that it does not aim to define what Renaissance philosophy is, rather simply to cover the philosophy of the period between 1300 and 1650.

Author : Nathan Sidoli,R.S.D. Thomas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000896053

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The Spherics of Theodosios by Nathan Sidoli,R.S.D. Thomas Pdf

This book provides the first English translation of the Greek text of the Spherics of Theodosios (2nd-1st century BCE), a canonical mathematical and astronomical text used from as early as the 2nd century CE until the early modern period. Accompanied by an introduction to the life and works of Theodosios and a contextualization of his Spherics among other works of Greek mathematics and astronomy, the translation is followed by a detailed commentary, and an accessible English paraphrase accompanied with mathematically generated diagrams. The volume has a broad appeal to both general and specialist readers who do not read ancient Greek – allowing readers to understand the mathematical and astronomical principles and methods used by ancient and medieval readers of this important text. The paraphrase with its mathematical diagrams will be useful for readers with a scientific and mathematical background. This study of one of the canonical mathematical and astronomical texts of the ancient Greco-Roman, classical Islamic, and medieval Christian worlds provides an invaluable resource for historians of science, astronomy, and mathematics, and scholars of the ancient and medieval periods.