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[Paris: Henrici Stephani, 1507].. [63]pp., including numerous illustrations. Folio. Antique-style paneled calf, elaborately gilt, spine gilt. 18th-century institutional stamp on verso of titlepage. Occasional minor repairs, most prominent in blank margin of last leaf. Contemporary manuscript notes on several leaves. Overall very good. An important edition of Sacrobosco's works on astronomy and the calendar. A 13th-century mathematician and astronomer, Sacrobosco taught at the University of Paris and is believed to have been of British origin. There is, however, very little reliable information about his life. Much of what is "known" is little more than speculation on behalf of historians of the 16th and 17th centuries. SPHÆRA, as it is most commonly known, is the most famous of Sacrobosco's works. It is a basic account of the spherical geometry underpinning the mathematical astronomy of Ptolemy and his Arabic commentators. It was extraordinarily successful, particularly as a university text book.…
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by Sacro Bosco, JOHANNES de SACRO BOSCO. (c. 1195 - c. 1256)
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Figura sphere cu[m] glosis Georgii de Mo[n]teferrato artiu[m] [et] medici[n]e doctoris : gradiam [et] gloriam dabit dominus
by Sacro Bosco, JOHANNES de SACRO BOSCO. (c. 1195 - c. 1256)
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Venice: Venice [Jacobus Pentius, de Leuco] for Georgius de Monteferrato 1500, die 28 ianuarii, 1500. This copy is bound in full laced cased later vellum, blue edges, and recent marbled endpapers.
Quarto. 26 lvs, A-E4 F6 . There is a large woodcut on title page 'sphera mundi', see to the left and three other large woodcut diagrams in text. Woodcut capitals, also spaces with guide-letters. Tear repaired in corner of f. 2, with some text loss.
This illustrated incunable is printed by Jacobus Pentius, de Leuce who started printing in 1495, his press was chiefly active after the turn of the century.
¶ In 1220 Sacrobosco wrote Tractatus de Sphaera a book on astronomy in four chapters. The first chapter deals with the shape and place of the Earth within a spherical universe. The second chapter deals with various circles on the sky. The third chapter describes rising and setting of heavenly bodies from different geographical locations while the fourth chapter gives a brief introduction to Ptolemy's theory of the planets and of eclipses.
This book, which predates Grosseteste's astronomy book, is well written and was widely used throughout Europe.
Goff J421; Klebs, A.C. Incunabula scientifica et medica,; entry 874.30; BMC V 566; HCR 14126; Essling 264; Sander 6668; Pell Ms 6718 (6683); Hillard 1153; Péligry 480; IGI 5353; Hubay(Augsburg) 1247; Pr 5705; GW M14661
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- Date Published 1500
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TEXTUS DE SPHERA JOHANNIS DE SACROBOSCO DE CUM ADDITIONE (QUANTUM NECESSARIUM EST) ADIECTA: NEUE COMMENTARIO NUPER EDITO AD VTILITATE STUDENTIU PHILOSOPHICE PARIESEN. ACADEMIE ILLUSTRATUS CU COPOSITIONE ANULI ASTROMICI BONI LATENSIS
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by Simon de Compi�gne, Jean Bonnet, Johannes de Sacro Bosco
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, [6], 126 leaves, engraved title page and frontispiece, full page plate, title in red and black, gothic text, further 56 woodcuts throughout including diagrams, decorated capitals. First published in Paris, 1504, under title: Le Cuer de philozophie this is a new translation of an anonymous compilation of a treatise attributed to Jean Bonnet, an abstract of "De sphera" by Johannes de Sacro Bosco and a translation of Anianus by S. de Compi�gne. It follows the edition of 1530
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