Textus De Sphera Iohannis de Sacrobosco : Cum Additione (quantum necessarium est) adiecta : Nouo co[m]mentario nuper edito Ad vtilitatem studentiu[m] Philosophice Parisien[sis] Academie : illustratus

Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230, Higman, Johann, -1500, printer, Hopyl, Wolfgang, -1522, publisher, Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) · 1494 · Impressum Parisij ... : Per ingeniosum impressore[m] Uvolffgangu[m] hopyl ..., Anno Christi siderum conditoris 1494 duodecima februarij ... [12 Feb. 1494 or 1495] · 5 pictures

Textus De Sphera is a 1494 Paris printing of Johannes de Sacrobosco's astronomy textbook, printed by Wolfgang Hopyl and Johann Higman for students at the University of Paris. Its pictures are simple woodcut diagrams of celestial spheres, orbits and a globe with figures of the constellations, showing how early printed scientific diagrams labelled circles and lettered points.

Astronomy · Early works to 1800 · France · Incunabula · Paris

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