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De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period - The Authors of the Commentaries (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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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.
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