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    De sphaera mundi (Latin title meaning On the Sphere of the World, sometimes rendered The Sphere of the Cosmos; the Latin title is also given as Tractatus...
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    named in his memory. About 1230, his best-known work, Tractatus de Sphaera / De Sphaera Mundi (Treatise on the Sphere / On the Sphere of the World) was published...
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  • 1180–84 Tractatus de Sphaera, or De sphaera mundi, the basic elements of astronomy written by Johannes de Sacrobosco c. 1230 Tractatus de superstitionibus...
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    relied on introductions to the Ptolemaic system such as the De sphaera mundi of Johannes de Sacrobosco and the genre of textbooks known as Theorica planetarum...
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    picture of a small paper boat in an edition of Tractatus de sphaera mundi from 1490 by Johannes de Sacrobosco. However it is very likely that paper folding...
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  • French prose romance Guillaume de Lorris – First section of Romance of the Rose Johannes de Sacrobosco – De sphaera mundi Snorri Sturlusson – Heimskringla...
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  • been noted to be spherical. For example, Johannes de Sacrobosco (1195–1256) wrote in his De sphaera mundi ("Treatise on the Sphere"): That the earth, too...
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    small paper boat in the 1498 French edition of Johannes de Sacrobosco's Tractatus de Sphaera Mundi. There is also evidence of a cut and folded paper box...
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    U.S. Chinese constellations – Groupings used in Chinese astrology De sphaera mundi – Book by Sacrobosco, describes the late medieval (Ptolemaic) cosmos...
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  • ascribed to a Gerard (either of Cremona or of Sabioneta) or the De sphaera mundi of Johannes de Sacrobosco. Pedersen, O. (1981). "The Origins of the Theorica...
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  • books by the philosopher Peter Sloterdijk De sphaera mundi (The Sphere), a medieval astronomy book by Johannes de Sacrobosco The Sphere (newspaper), a British...
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    Collection in New York, alongside astronomer Johannes de Sacrobosco's manuscript "De sphaera mundi" (On the Sphere of the World), which supports the earlier...
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  • Aaron Afia (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    assisted in his (unpublished) Hebrew translation of Johannes de Sacrobosco's De sphaera mundi. Almosnino's Bet Elokim—an astronomical work which draws on...
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    combinatorial concepts. He had read Clavius' comments to Sacrobosco's De sphaera mundi, and some other contemporary works. He introduced the term variationes...
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    Tycho Brahe (redirect from Tycho de Brahe)
    including Johannes de Sacrobosco's De sphaera mundi, Petrus Apianus's Cosmographia seu descriptio totius orbis and Regiomontanus's De triangulis omnimodis...
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    corresponds to a house in the zodiac. Armillary sphere Celestial sphere De sphaera mundi "A CELESTIAL GLOBE, MADE BY MUGHAL ASTROLABIST MUHAMMAD SALIH OF THATTA...
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  • Johann Numeister and Evangelista Angelini da Trevi Johannes de Sacrobosco – De sphaera mundi (written c. 1230), the first printed astronomical book Paul...
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    was fascinated by the thirteenth-century work of Johannes de Sacrobosco, De sphaera mundi, and on 12 September 1662 observed his first partial solar...
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    participating in the action of a superior principle, usually the world-soul (anima mundi). The theory holds that matter is unified with life or spiritual activity...
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    Lucretius in his poem De rerum natura. In 1543, the geocentric system met its first serious challenge with the publication of Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium...
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  • editions and translations by the end of the century. Johannes de Sacrobosco's De sphaera mundi (written c. 1230) is first published in Ferrara, the first...
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    Johannes de Sacrobosco (c. 1195 – c. 1256) – Irish monk and astronomer who wrote the authoritative medieval astronomy text Tractatus de Sphaera; his Algorismus...
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  • piece of work created by Johannes de Sacrobosco titled De sphaera mundi or Tractatus de Sphaera. Avelar's commentary in this work was dictated as new as...
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    ed. 1949) and translated the medieval astronomical textbook De sphaera mundi of Johannes de Sacrobosco. The Place of Magic in the Intellectual History...
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  • Lefèvre d'Étaples, together with his own commentary on John Sacrobosco's De Sphæra Mundi and Euclid's Geometry, Paris, 1500. Editions were also published in...
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    A volvelle from the sixteenth century edition of the De sphaera mundi by Johannes de Sacrobosco....
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  • Ages. Johannes de Sacrobosco. Johannes de Sacrobosco (c. 1195 – c. 1256) was a medieval scholar and astronomer who wrote his De sphaera mundi (The Sphere...
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    able and respected Catholic astronomers of his day, and his main work, Sphaera Mundi, was republished at least four times in the seventeenth century, 1620...
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  • at Tübingen; Melanchthon dedicated to him his 1531 edition of the De sphaera mundi. Melanchthon advocated astrology often: in 1531 in defending to Joachim...
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  • the Sources of the De Sphaera Mundi of Joannes de Sacrobosco or John Holywood (1921). A study of the astronomy work De sphaera mundi (The Sphere of the...
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