{ "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: 202 mm, width: 202 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 with Georg Peuerbach's Theoricae novae planetarum<\/i> and Johannes Regiomontanus's Disputationes contra Cremonensia deliramenta.<\/i> It is illustrated throughout with woodcuts, some of which were coloured. This figure, from part of chapter two of Sacrobosco's text that discusses the circles of the Sphere, shows the equinoctial circle and poles of the World.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "1488" }, { "label": "Title", "value": "Definition of the equinoctial circle and the poles of the World" }, { "label": "Material", "value": "paper" }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "Inc.5.B.3.96c[1702]" }, { "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> Sacrobosco tradition - the circles of the sphere: CUL Inc.4.B.3.6d[1389] (Colures and horizons)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - the circles of the sphere: 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 M.9.49(1) (The great circles of the Sphere)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - the circles of the sphere: CUL Inc.5.B.3.96c[1702] (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 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) (Greater and smaller circles of the Sphere)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - the circles of the sphere: CUL M.9.49(1) (The equinoctial)<\/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 Syn.6.51.5 (The equinoctial circle)<\/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 M.9.49(1) (Colures of the Sphere)<\/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 M.9.49(1) (Declination)<\/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 Norton.c.32 (The equinoctial circle)<\/a><\/p> Sacrobosco tradition - the circles of the sphere: CUL Inc.5.A.4.24[685] (Zodiac signs)<\/a><\/p>