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Ioannis de Sacrobusto Libellus de sphaera. : Accessit eiusdem autoris computus ecclesiasticus, & alia quaedam in studiosorum gratiam edita.

Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230, Parreño, Alberto. fmo RPJCB, Bromsen, Maury A. fmo RPJCB, Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230. Computus ecclesiasticus, Melanchthon, Philipp, 1497-1560 · 1543 · Vitebergae : Excudebat Petrus Seitz · 7 pictures

Johannes de Sacrobosco's Libellus de sphaera is a 1543 astronomy textbook printed at Wittenberg by Petrus Seitz, prepared for students and including a church computus. Its diagrams show spherical astronomy: horizon and meridian circles, a zodiac wheel with signs and planetary symbols, and paired orbit drawings. A designer might take from them the precise, geometric line work of early modern celestial diagrams, with dense hatching and ringed circles.

Astronomy · Cosmography · Church calendar · Imprint 1543

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