{ "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 definition of colures and horizons, a diagram is copied in the bottom margin of the right-hand page.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "1478" }, { "label": "Title", "value": "Colures and horizons" }, { "label": "Material", "value": "paper" }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "Inc.4.B.3.6d[1389]" }, { "label": "Note(s)", "value": "
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Sacrobosco tradition - the circles of the sphere: CUL Inc.4.B.3.6d[1389] (Zodiac signs)<\/a><\/p> Another part of this argument: CUL Inc.4.B.3.6d[1389] (Signs of the zodiac and colures, with manuscript diagrams)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - the circles of the sphere: CUL Inc.5.B.3.96c[1702] (Definition of the equinoctial circle and the poles of the World)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - the circles of the sphere: CUL M.9.49(1) (Greater and smaller circles of the Sphere)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - the circles of the sphere: CUL M.9.49(1) (The great circles of the Sphere)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - the circles of the sphere: CUL M.9.49(1) (The twelve astrological houses and the distribution of zodiac signs between planets)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - the circles of the sphere: CUL Inc.5.A.4.24[685] (Zodiac signs)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - the circles of the sphere: CUL M.9.49(1) (Table of solar declinations)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - the circles of the sphere: CUL Syn.6.51.5 (The ecliptic)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - the circles of the sphere: CUL M.9.49(1) (The equinoctial)<\/a><\/p> Another part of this argument: CUL Inc.4.B.3.6d[1389] (Polar circles, tropics, equator and colures)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - the circles of the sphere: CUL Syn.6.51.5 (The equinoctial circle)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - the circles of the sphere: CUL M.9.49(1) (Colures of the Sphere)<\/a><\/p> Corresponding image in a different edition: CUL Inc.5.B.3.96c[1702] (Colures)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - the circles of the sphere: CUL M.9.49(1) (Declination)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - the circles of the sphere: CUL Inc.5.B.3.85[1636] (Zodiac)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - the circles of the sphere: CUL Norton.c.32 (The ecliptic)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - the circles of the sphere: CUL Hanson.c.180 (Signs and colures)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - the circles of the sphere: CUL M.9.49(1) (The twelve astrological houses)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - the circles of the sphere: CUL Norton.c.32 (The equinoctial circle)<\/a><\/p>