Introductorium co[m]pendiosum in Tractatum spere material[is] m[a]g[ist]ri Ioa[n]nis de Sacrobusto que[m] abbreuiauit ex almagesti sapie[n]tis Ptholomei Claudij ph[ilosoph]i alexa[n]drini ex Pheludio p[ro]geniti

Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230, Glogów, Jan, d. 1507 · 1506 · Impressum Cracouie : [Joannes Haller] · 6 pictures

This 1506 Kraków incunable is an astronomy textbook, an abridged commentary on Sacrobosco's sphere treatise by Jan of Głogów, printed by Joannes Haller for university students. Its pictures are small black-and-white woodcut diagrams of concentric celestial spheres, epicycles and eclipse geometry set among dense blackletter Latin text, offering a designer strong radial, ring-and-circle compositions with bold solid black bands.

Astronomy

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