Publishing Sacrobosco’s De sphaera in Early Modern Europe : Modes of Material and Scientific Exchange
Publication year: 2022
ISBN: 978-3-030-86600-6
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This 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.
Subject: History, History of Science, History of Philosophy, Johannes de Sacrobosco, Tractatus de sphaera, Academic Book Market, Early Modern PrintsHistory of Astronomy
