De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period The
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 geocentri
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De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period The Authors of the Commentaries
De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period
Matteo Valleriani Editor
De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period The Authors of the Commentaries
Editor Matteo Valleriani Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin, Germany Technische Universität Berlin Berlin, Germany University of Tel Aviv Tel Aviv, Israel
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Preface
This volume presents the results achieved by a working group established in the framework of the research project “The Sphere: Knowledge System Evolution and the Shared Scientific Identity of Europe” (https://sphaera.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de). The project’s general aim is to reconstruct the long transformation process of cosmological knowledge that took place from the second half of the fifteenth century to 1650. Its focus lies on a specific corpus of historical sources, namely, textbooks that were used above all for introductory studies at the liberal arts faculties of early modern European universities. In order to collect a meaningful corpus
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