De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period

Prof. Dr. Matteo Valleriani is research group leader of Department I at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and Honorary Professor at the Technische Universität of Berlin. He investigates the relation between diffusion processes of scientific knowledge, practical and technological knowledge as well as their economic and political preconditions. In particular, his research focuses on the Hellenistic period, the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Times. Among his principal research endeavors, Matteo Valleriani, leads the project “The Sphere. Knowledge System Evolution and the Shared Scientific Identity of Europe” (https://sphaera.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de), which investigates the formation and evolution of the shared scientific identity in Europe between the 13th and the 17th century.Among his publications, Matteo Valleriani is author of the book Galileo Engineer (Springer Dordrecht 2010) and Editor of The Structures of Practical Knowledge (Springer Dordrecht 2017).

“The volume offers an excellent overview of authors and geographical regions whose contribution considerably, and in different ways, enlarged the content of this medieval booklet as well as the initiation to astronomy that it offered to European students and the general public. … The reader of this excellent book can now follow this path, choosing his or her own itinerary thanks to the synergy it allows through the digital reproductions of the editions of the Sphaera … .” (Miguel Ángel Granada, Journal for the History of Astronomy, Vol. 52 (3), August, 2021)

• Chapter 1. Authors and Commentaries on The Sphere of Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period.- Chapter 2. A Lathe and the Material Sphere: Astronomical Technique at the Origins of the Cosmographical Handbook.- Chapter 3. Pedro Sánchez Ciruelo. A Commentary to The Sphere with a Defense of Astrology.- Chapter 4. Francesco Capuano da Manfredonia. - Chapter 5. Conrad Tockler’s Research Agenda.- Chapter 6. John of Glogów.- Chapter 7. Sacrobosco’s Sphere in Spain and Portugal.- Chapter 8. Oronce Fine: From the Edition of Sacrobosco’s Sphere (1516) to the Cosmographia (1532).- Chapter 9. The Reception of Cosmography in Vienna during the “Integral Humanism”.- Chapter 10. Borrowers and Innovators in the Printing History of Sacrobosco: The Case of the “in-octavo” Tradition.- Chapter 11. The Sphere of Elie Vinet and Guillaume des Bordes: Networks and Knowledge’s Building.- Chapter 12. André do Avelar and the teaching of Sacrobosco’s Sphæra in the University of Coimbra.- Chapter 13. Franco Burgersdijk (1590–1635): Author of the Dutch Tractatus de sphaera.