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
	cover
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Contents
	About the Authors
	Chapter 1: Prolegomena to the Study of Early Modern Commentators on Johannes de Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera
		1 The Corpus of the Printed Commentaries
		2 The Authors of the Commentaries as a Social Network
		3 Profiling the Authors
		4 The Publishers and Future Research
		References
	Chapter 2: A Lathe and the Material Sphaera: Astronomical Technique at the Origins of the Cosmographical Handbook
		1 Introduction
		2 Mathematical Reform
		3 Vision and Technique
		4 Introducing Cosmographical Practice
		5 The Material Sphaera
		6 Conclusion
		Appendix. Contents of the Early Handbooks of Cosmography
		References
			Manuscripts
			Primary Sources
			Secondary Literature
	Chapter 3: Pedro Sánchez Ciruelo. A Commentary on Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera with a Defense of Astrology
		1 Introduction
		2 Social and Intellectual Background
		3 University Training and Works
		4 The Commentary on Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera, the Preface, and It’s Context
		5 The Structure of the Apotelesmata and the Renovation of Astrology
		6 Conclusion
		References
			Manuscripts
			Primary Sources
			Secondary Literature
	Chapter 4: Francesco Capuano di Manfredonia
		1 Introduction
		2 Bibliographical Fragments
		3 The Venetian Collections of Astronomical Works Containing the Commentary on Sacrobosco’s Sphaera Written by Francesco Capuano
		4 The Commentary on Sacrobosco’s Sphaera: A Comparative Analysis of the Two Redactions of the Prologue
		References
	Chapter 5: Conrad Tockler’s Research Agenda
		1 Introduction
		2 Tockler’s Reception of Marsilius Ficinus
		3 The Textbooks and the Teaching
			3.1 A Commentary on John Peckham’s Perspectiva communis
			3.2 Two Textbooks on Arithmetic
			3.3 Two Textbooks on Speculative Music
			3.4 A Commentary on Georg von Peuerbach’s Theorica planetarum
			3.5 Two Editions of a Commentary on the Tractatus de sphaera of Sacrobosco
			3.6 Textbooks on the Calendar and Mean Motions
		4 Works of Astrological Character
		5 Tockler’s Research Agenda in its Social Context
		6 Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 6: John of Glogów
		1 Introduction
		2 Astronomical Orbs from Ptolemy to Peuerbach
		3 The Dispute with the Averroists in Europe
		4 Sacrobosco on the Celestial Circles, and Glogów on the Celestial Orbs
		References
			Primary Sources
			Secondary Literature
	Chapter 7: Sacrobosco’s Sphaera in Spain and Portugal
		1 Introduction
		2 The Iberian Context
			2.1 Tractado da Spera (Lisbon, 1510)
			2.2 Francisco Faleiro, Tratado del esphera y del arte del marear (Seville: Juan Cromberger, 1535)
			2.3 Pedro Nuñes, Tratado da sphera com a Theorica do Sol e da Lua (Lisbon: Germão Galharde, 1537)
			2.4 Jerónimo de Chaves, Tractado de la sphera que compuso el doctor Ioannes de Sacrobusto con muchas additiones (Seville: Juan de Leon, 1545)
			2.5 Martin Cortes. Breve Compendio de la Esfera y de la Arte de Navegar (Seville, 1551)
			2.6 Rodrigo Saenz de Santayana y Spinosa, La Sphera de Iuan de Sacrobosco (Valladolid: Adrian Ghemart, 1567)
			2.7 Diego Pérez de Mesa, Comentarios de Sphera (1596)
		3 Conclusions
		References
			Primary Sources
			Secondary Literature
	Chapter 8: Oronce Fine and Sacrobosco: From the Edition of the Tractatus de sphaera (1516) to the Cosmographia (1532)
		1 Introduction
		2 Fine’s Life and Career
		3 Fine’s Edition of Sacrobosco’s Sphaera and It’s Significance for His Pedagogical and Scientific Project
		4 From the Sphaera of Sacrobosco to the Cosmographia, sive Sphaera mundi
		5 Cosmology in the Sphaera and in the Cosmographia
		6 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 9: Borrowers and Innovators in the History of Printing Sacrobosco: The Case of the In-Octavo Tradition
		1 Introduction
		2 The Dialectic of Tradition and Innovation: The In-Octavo Editions
		3 The Predecessors: The Venetian Incunabula and the Leipzig Editions
		4 The Founder of the Tradition: Petrus Apianus (1526)
		5 The Model Perfected: The Wittenberg Editions
		6 The Development of the In-Octavo Tradition
		7 Publishers Versus Mathematicians
			7.1 The Shift from Town to Town
			7.2 Editorial Policies and Clustered Publications
			7.3 Anonymity Versus Signature
			7.4 The Large Range of Innovations and the Importance of the mise en texte
			7.5 The Illustration: Scientific and Commercial Issues
		8 The Limits of the Tradition: The Case of Francesco Giuntini
		9 Conclusion
		References
			Editions of Sacrobosco’s Sphere Anterior to the In-Octavo Tradition
			Editions in the In-Octavo Tradition (1526–1601)
			Large Commentaries on the Sphere
			‘Adaptions’ of the Sphere and Other Cosmological and Astronomical Books
			Secondary Literature
	Chapter 10: André do Avelar and the Teaching of Sacrobosco’s Sphaera at the University of Coimbra
		1 Introduction
		2 Pedro Nuñes and the Sphaera at the University of Coimbra
		3 Mathematics at the Colégio das Artes of Coimbra
		4 André Do Avelar’s Reportorio dos tempos
		5 “Flectimur Sed Non Frangimur”
		6 Avelar’s Sphaera
		7 The Sources of Avelar’s Sphaera
		8 Literary Citations
		9 Manilius’s Astronomica and the Sphaera
		10 Avelar’s Manuscripts
		11 Avelar’s Career at the University of Coimbra
		12 Inquisition in Portugal
		13 Avelar’s Involvement with Jewish Religion
		14 Astrology and the Jewish Messiah
		15 Avelar and the Inquisition. First Proceedings
		16 Avelar and the Inquisition. Second Proceedings
		17 Concluding Remarks
		References
	Chapter 11: Fashioning Cosmology: Franco Burgersdijk as the Author of the Dutch Tractatus de sphaera
		1 Life and Work
		2 The Schoolorde (1625)
		3 Print and Privilege
		4 Situating De sphaera
		5 Burgersdijk’s Edition of De sphaera
		6 Conclusions
		Appendix
		References
	Index
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	Chapter 9: Borrowers and Innovators in the History of Printing Sacrobosco: The Case of the In-Octavo Tradition
		1 Introduction
		2 The Dialectic of Tradition and Innovation: The In-Octavo Editions
		3 The Predecessors: The Venetian Incunabula and the Leipzig Editions
		4 The Founder of the Tradition: Petrus Apianus (1526)
		5 The Model Perfected: The Wittenberg Editions
		6 The Development of the In-Octavo Tradition
		7 Publishers Versus Mathematicians
			7.1 The Shift from Town to Town
			7.2 Editorial Policies and Clustered Publications
			7.3 Anonymity Versus Signature
			7.4 The Large Range of Innovations and the Importance of the mise en texte
			7.5 The Illustration: Scientific and Commercial Issues
		8 The Limits of the Tradition: The Case of Francesco Giuntini
		9 Conclusion
		References
			Editions of Sacrobosco’s Sphere Anterior to the In-Octavo Tradition
			Editions in the In-Octavo Tradition (1526–1601)
			Large Commentaries on the Sphere
			‘Adaptions’ of the Sphere and Other Cosmological and Astronomical Books
			Secondary Literature