• Anglický jazyk

Publishing Sacrobosco's De sphaera in Early Modern Europe

Autor: Andrea Ottone

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,


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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.

  • Vydavateľstvo: Springer International Publishing
  • Rok vydania: 2022
  • Formát: Paperback
  • Rozmer: 235 x 155 mm
  • Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
  • ISBN: 9783030866020

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