The Book Everybody Read: Vernacular Translations of Sacrobosco’s <i>Sphere</i> in the Sixteenth Century

Crowther, Kathleen; McCray, Ashley Nicole; McNeill, Leila; Rodgers, Amy; Stein, Blair

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“…11). Finally, the process of integrating knowledge that helped make sense of the great journeys of exploration-and on occasion helped facilitate the journeys themselves (Valleriani 2017;Crowther et al 2015) (Chaps. 7 and 10)-not only lent credence to the claim that the treatise was useful but also represented an opportunity to celebrate "Christian knowledge."…”

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Prolegomena to the Study of Early Modern Commentators on Johannes de Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera

Valleriani

2020

De Sphaera of Johannes De Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period

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By way of introduction to the present volume, a corpus of 359 treatises is described that was used in early modern educational institutions for introductory classes on cosmology and that is referenced by the following contributions. Following a taxonomy of early modern commentaries, central characteristics are analyzed in detail such as the rate of production of the treatises, the places where they were produced, and their various languages and formats. The focus then turns to the balance between the temporal dynamics of production of the treatises and the lifespans of their commentators. This reveals how the early modern textbooks first amplified medieval scientific knowledge and only slowly began to support and spread the echoes of scientific debate among contemporary scholars. The institutional and intellectual profiles of the commentary authors are then described on the basis of the results presented in the contributions to this volume. The commentators are described by referring on one hand to their relations to the universities, religious orders, and commercial institutions, and on the other to their engagement with disciplines both inside and outside the conceptual framework of the quadrivium. Finally, a quantitative summary of the results achieved by this volume is presented along with outlines for future research endeavors that will focus, consequently, on the role of the printers and publishers of the same commentaries. Commentaries on the Sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco (died ca. 1256) constitute a peculiar genre in the mare magnum of medieval and early modern scientific commentaries. They are peculiar for a number of reasons. First and foremost, they do not comment on an ancient text but rather on a late medieval textbook, compiled for coursework at the University of Paris (Thorndike 1949, 76-142). Sacrobosco's

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Prolegomena to the Study of Early Modern Commentators on Johannes de Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera

Valleriani

2020

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“…d1r): "Elevationes poli and Quantitates maximarum dierum." 56 On the mostly practical nature of the material added to the text of Sacrobosco in the sixteenth century, see (Crowther et al 2015;Oosterhoff 2015;Valleriani 2017). 57 These are divided in ratio, objectio, solutio, confirmatio, probatio, conclusio and occasionally numbered (prima ratio; secunda ratio…).…”

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“…At that point in Fine's career, especially after the work he had done on Peurbach's Theorica planetarum published a year before, this edition of Sacrobosco's Sphaera represented a meaningful move to confirm his competence as an editor of scientific books, since he then likely intended to maintain this activity as an auxiliary source of income while teaching mathematics at the Collège de Navarre. It would certainly enable him to gain visibility in this function, 60 as Sacrobosco's Sphaera was a highly demanded work and therefore an easily marketable product, especially as it was part of the standard mathematical curriculum of the university (Crowther et al 2015; on the context in which he could have added these annotations, it is possible that such notes were written down in the context of a classroom. On this type of layout and on the practice of notetaking on printed textbooks in Parisian university classrooms at the beginning of the sixteenth century, see (Oosterhoff 2015(Oosterhoff , 2018, 74-75) (Chap.…”

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“…See (Fine 1535(Fine , 1542a(Fine , 1544a, for the bibliographical references of these reprints. 24 On the Parisian context of scientific book printing, see also (Crowther et al 2015;Valleriani 2017). 25 (Peurbach and Fine 1515;Sacrobosco and Fine 1516;Ricci and Fine 1521;Sacrobosco et al 1521;Fine 1526Fine , 1527Fine , 1528Fine , 1529Fine , 1532Fine , 1543aFine , b, 1544bFine , 1545Fine , 1553aFine , b, c, 1557Borrhaus 1551;Mizauld 1552).…”

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Oronce Fine and Sacrobosco: From the Edition of the Tractatus de sphaera (1516) to the Cosmographia (1532)

Axworthy

2020

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This paper considers the contribution of the French mathematician Oronce Fine to the diffusion and transformation of Johannes de Sacrobosco's Tractatus de sphaera by considering his 1516 edition of the Sphaera and his Cosmographia, sive sphaera mundi (in Protomathesis, 1532). The article first describes Fine's life and career, as well as his work as editor of the Sphaera. In a second part, it considers what Fine, in the Cosmographia, has drawn and left aside from the Sphaera, revealing the consequent transformations to the teaching of Sacrobosco's theory of the sphere and its adaptation to the cultural and intellectual environment in which Fine evolved. A last part considers the treatment, in the Cosmographia, of the cosmological representations transmitted by Sacrobosco and by subsequent interpreters of Ptolemaic astronomy concerning the number of celestial spheres and its relation to judicial astrology.

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“…189r-199v, and the commentary as well. For other translations of Sacrobosco's Sphaera, see (Crowther et al 2015). For translations into Spanish, and also into Portuguese (Chap.…”

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Pedro Sánchez Ciruelo. A Commentary on Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera with a Defense of Astrology

Navarro

Tayra²

2020

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This paper focuses on the figure of the Spanish scholar Pedro Sánchez Ciruelo (ca. 1470-1548), who published a commentary on Johannes de Sacrobosco's Sphaera in 1498. The aim of this study is to analyze the defense of astrology that Ciruelo prepared for the preface of his commentary in order to show that this praise of astrology represents a significant part of the scholar's intellectual interests, which remained constant throughout his career. It is possible to get a richer understanding of Ciruelo's defenses of astrology in several of his works by placing them in their own specific context: the first one in the context of the prohibition of Simon de Phares's activities in Paris in 1494, and the second one in Europe in the first decades of the sixteenth century, during which those interested in astrology were mainly concerned with Pico della Mirandola's Disputationes and its consequences for the discipline.

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The Book Everybody Read: Vernacular Translations of Sacrobosco’s Sphere in the Sixteenth Century

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Prolegomena to the Study of Early Modern Commentators on Johannes de Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera

Prolegomena to the Study of Early Modern Commentators on Johannes de Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera

Oronce Fine and Sacrobosco: From the Edition of the Tractatus de sphaera (1516) to the Cosmographia (1532)

Pedro Sánchez Ciruelo. A Commentary on Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera with a Defense of Astrology

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