{ "viewingDirection": "left-to-right", "metadata": [ { "label": "Uniform Title", "value": "Sphaera mundi" }, { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "Venice" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "Cambridge University Library" }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "Leaf height: 213 mm, width: 213 mm." }, { "label": "Funding", "value": "" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "
Very little is known about Johannes Sacrobosco except that he was probably British, taught astronomy at Paris University, and died there in the second quarter of the thirteenth century. Sphaera mundi<\/i>, his major work, was an extraordinarily popular astronomical textbook for several generations. Manuscripts of it circulated through all the main European centres of learning. It was first published in 1472 in Ferrara, and went through dozens of editions up to the mid-seventeenth century. This edition of Sacrobosco's Sphaera mundi<\/i> was printed by Franz Renner in Venice in 1478. This particular copy records various past owners, including one (whose name is no longer legible) who had begun annotating his copy in 1521 but then also heard a lecture, in September 1522, by 'the most excellent teacher of astronomy, Luca Gaurico' (a well-known astrologer (1476-1558) who served various nobles, including, later, Catherine de' Medici). The annotations, including the figures, were copied from a subsequent edition of 1488, and are most likely the insertions by this owner from the early sixteenth century. In this section on the division of the sphere, a figure (in the left hand margin) has been copied from the 1488 edition, A10r-v.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "1478" }, { "label": "Title", "value": "Fabric of the World" }, { "label": "Material", "value": "paper" }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "Inc.4.B.3.6d[1389]" }, { "label": "Note(s)", "value": "
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Sacrobosco tradition - division of the Sphere: Wren S.6.14 (The elementary qualities and their combinations)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - division of the Sphere: CUL Inc.4.B.3.6d[1389] (Cosmological spheres and orbs, and the elements of geometry)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - division of the Sphere: CUL M.9.49(1) (Correspondence between equinoxes, solstices, seasons, months, Elements and zodiacal signs)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - division of the Sphere: CUL M.9.49(1) (The four Elements)<\/a><\/p> Right and oblique horizons: Whipple STORE 58:19 (Horizon)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - division of the Sphere: CUL M.9.49(1) (The elementary qualities and their combinations)<\/a><\/p> Another part of this argument: CUL Inc.4.B.3.6d[1389] (The revolution and sphericity of the heavens)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - division of the Sphere: CUL Syn.6.51.5 (The spheres of Air)<\/a><\/p> Corresponding image in a different edition: CUL Inc.5.B.3.96c[1702] (Cosmological spheres and orbs (the order of spheres in the Ptolemaic worldview))<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - division of the Sphere: CUL Hanson.c.180 (Cosmological spheres and orbs, and the right horizon)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - division of the Sphere: CUL M.10.16 (Cosmological spheres and orbs (the order of spheres in the Ptolemaic worldview))<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - division of the Sphere: CUL M.9.49(1) (Elemental and celestial regions)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - division of the Sphere: Whipple STORE 55:13 (Cosmological spheres and orbs)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - division of the Sphere: Whipple STORE 55:13 (The four Elements)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - division of the Sphere: CUL Eee.84 (Parallax, and Fine's geocentric Universe with eight spheres)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - division of the Sphere: CUL Hanson.c.180 (The oblique horizon, and the spheres of the Elements)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - division of the Sphere: CUL P*.10.45(D) (Cosmological spheres and orbs)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - division of the Sphere: CUL Syn.6.51.5 (Cosmological spheres and orbs)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - division of the Sphere: CUL F151.c.7.5 (Combination of Elements)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - division of the Sphere: CUL M.9.49(1) (Cosmological spheres and orbs)<\/a><\/p>