Publishing Sacrobosco’s De sphaera in Early Modern Europe: Modes of Material and Scientific Exchange

Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
Editors and Contributors
1 Printers, Publishers, and Sellers: Actors in the Process of Consolidation of Epistemic Communities in the Early Modern Academic World
	1 Introduction
	2 Printers as a Collective Body of Actors
	3 Production
	4 Distribution
	5 Consumption
	6 Modes of Production of Early Modern Scientific Textbooks
	7 Continuities and Further Research
	References
2 Printerly Ingenuity and Mathematical Books in the Early Estienne Workshop
	1 Introduction
	2 Printer's Ingenuity and Mathematical Books
	3 Astronomical Practice in Frontispieces
	4 Conclusion
	Appendix
	References
3 Erhard Ratdolt’s Edition of Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera: A New Editorial Model in Venice?
	1 Introduction
		1.1 Before Erhard Ratdolt: Sacrobosco in Italy
	2 Erhard Ratdolt’s Editions in the Venetian Context
		2.1 Renner Versus Ratdolt
		2.2 Ratdolt’s Reinterpretation of Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera
		2.3 Sacrobosco and the Italo-German Comparison
		2.4 Ratdolt’s Reinterpretation
		2.5 An Actualization of the Tractatus de sphaera
	3 Diffusion and Reinterpretation of Ratdolt’s Editorial Model
		3.1 Diffusion of Ratdolt’s Editions in Europe
		3.2 Adaptations of Ratdolt’s Model
		3.3 Model Replaced: Sacrobosco’s Posterity in Venice and in Europe
	4 Conclusion
	References
4 Printers, Booksellers, and Bookbinders in Wittenberg in the Sixteenth Century: Real Estate, Vicinity, Political, and Cultural Activities
	1 Wittenberg: An Intellectual Center in the Sixteenth Century
	2 Printers, Booksellers, and Bookbinders in Wittenberg: An Overview on Their Real Estate
		2.1 Publishers, Printers, Booksellers, and Bookbinders
	3 Wittenberg Printers of the Sphaera and Their Real Estate
	4 Examples of Vicinities: Hints to Social and Professional Networks
	5 Samuel Selfisch
	6 Printers, Bookbinders, and Booksellers as Members of the Town Council
	7 Conclusion
	Appendix: List of Houses Mentioned in the Text
	References
5 Scholars, Printers, and the Sphere: New Evidence for the Challenging Production of Academic Books in Wittenberg, 1531–1550
	1 Introduction
	2 Printers, Publishers, and Payments
	3 Printing for the University of Wittenberg: Texts Between Intellectual and Economic Ambitions
	4 Melanchthon’s Close Ties to the Book Industry
	5 Printing the Sphaera
	6 Prices, Print Runs, and the Wittenberg Set of Woodblocks
	7 Conclusion—Of Beasts, Harpies, and Men Made of Iron
	References
6 Sacrobosco at the Book Fairs, 1576–1624: The Pedagogical Marketplace
	1 Introduction
	2 Novi, emendatiores, auctiores (“New, Improved, Enlarged”): The modus operandi of Fairs and Its Effect on Publishing Practices
	3 Scholastica: Lutheran Pedagogy, the Reformed Academies, and the Jesuits
	4 The Clavius Factor: Basa and Ciotti
	5 Lyon and St. Gervais
	6 The Owl of Minerva and the cursus philosophicus: Mareschal and Morisanus
	7 Some Conclusions
	References
7 The Iberian and New World Circulation of Sacrobosco’s Sphaera in the Early Modern Period
	1 Introduction
	2 On the Distribution of the Tractatus de sphaera in the Iberian Peninsula (1472–1650)
		2.1 Printers and Publishers of the Tractatus de sphaera in the Iberian Peninsula (1472–1650): Latin Editions
		2.2 Printers and Publishers of the Tractatus de sphaera in the Iberian Peninsula (1472–1650): Editions in the Vernacular Languages
	3 On the Circulation of Sacrobosco’s Text in the Iberian Peninsula via Inventories of Bookshops and Libraries (1472–1650)
	4 On the Circulation of the Tractatus de sphaera in America (1472–1650)
	5 Conclusions
	References
8 The Giunta’s Publishing and Distributing Network and Their Supply to the European Academic Market
	1 Introduction
	2 Building an International Network
	3 Sorting Out a Publishing Strategy
	4 Maintaining a Profitable Business: The Social Profiling of the Giunta’s Customers Through an Assessment of Costs and Prices
	5 A Network of Information
	6 The Giunta as Publishers of the Sphaera
	7 Conclusions
	References
9 Mathematical Books in Paris (1531–1563): The Development of Publishing Strategies in a Competitive International Market
	1 Introduction
	2 The Parisian Mathematical Books in an International Context
		2.1 The Parisian Book Market and Its International Openness
		2.2 The Circulation of Parisian Mathematical Books: A Few Clues
		2.3 Toward a European Regulation of Production?
	3 The Case of Guillaume Cavellat: A Publishing Strategy Centered on Mathematical Books
		3.1 Cavellat's Status Within the Parisian Book Trade
		3.2 The Constitution of a Catalogue
		3.3 Cavellat's Collaborators
	4 The Importance of Being Stylish
	5 Conclusion
	References
10 Paratexts, Printers, and Publishers: Book Production in Social Context
	1 Premise
	2 The Research Question
	3 The Corpus
	4 Methodological Considerations
	5 The Network
	6 Interpretation
		6.1 Geographical Distribution
		6.2 Validation and Corroboration for Local Cooperation
		6.3 Validation and Corroboration for Transregional Awareness
	7 Conclusions and Outlook
	References
11 The Sphaera in Jesuit Education
	1 Introduction
	2 The Early Years of Jesuit Education
	3 Clavius: The Academy of Mathematics and Sphaera Commentary
	4 Clavius’ Publisher and Jesuit Printing Policy
	5 Dedications and a Venetian Publisher
	6 Clavius’ Proposals for Jesuit Mathematical Education
	7 In Defense of Mathematics
	8 Perera’s Dismissal of Mathematics
	9 The Ratio Studiorum of 1599
	10 Mathematics Instruction after 1599
	11 Conclusion
	References
12 Printing Sacrobosco in Leipzig, 1488–ca. 1521: Local Markets and University Publishing
	1 Introduction
	2 The “Leipzig Sacrobosco”
	3 The Alma Mater Lipsiensis as a Local Market for the Sphaera
	4 The Leipzig Sacrobosco Commentaries
	5 Conclusion
	References
13 Publishing Mathematical Books of Parisian Calculatores (1508–1515)
	1 Introduction
	2 Pedro Sánchez Ciruelo and His Mathematical Program (1492–1500)
		2.1 Ciruelo’s Arrival in Paris and His Mathematical Books
		2.2 Guy Marchant, Publisher of Ciruelo’s Mathematical Books
		2.3 Jean Petit and Guy Marchant
	3 The Parisian Current of the Calculatores and Its Publishers (1508–1515)
		3.1 Republishing Ciruelo’s Arithmetical Texts Before the Calculatores
		3.2 The Parisian Calculatores and the Colleges of Iberian Tradition
		3.3 Publishers of Mathematical Books During the Calculatores Current
	4 The End of the Calculatores Current
	References
Index