{ "viewingDirection": "left-to-right", "metadata": [ { "label": "Uniform Title", "value": "Sphera volgare novamente tradotta" }, { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "Venice" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "Whipple Library" }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "Leaf height: 208 mm, width: 208 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 is from one of the first Italian translations of Sacrobosco's Sphaera<\/i>, to which Fra Mauro Fiorentino added a short treatise on cosmography, navigation, altimetry and stereometry. Fra Mauro Mattei from Florence or Fiorentino (c. 1493-1556) was a Servite active at the Annunziata Church in Florence. His interests covered several mathematical disciplines, including music (on which a treatise by him survives at the Laurenziana Library). At the beginning of his edition, Fra Mauro included a dedicatory letter to Giovan'Orthega de Carion, from the Annunziata Church, 1537. This Italian translation of Sacrobosco's classic work on the Sphere would have provided a useful resource for those who wanted to improve their knowledge of cosmography but lacked the Latin skills to read the original text, or preferred to read the vernacular version. The woodcut shows a figure explaining the risings and settings of stars.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "1537" }, { "label": "Title", "value": "Risings and settings of the stars" }, { "label": "Material", "value": "paper" }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "Whipple STORE 55:13" }, { "label": "Note(s)", "value": "
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Sacrobosco tradition - risings and settings of the stars: Wren S.6.14 (Fine's refined version of Sacrobosco's risings and settings of the stars)<\/a><\/p>