Publishing Sacrobosco's de Sphaera in Early Modern Europe : : Modes of Material and Scientific Exchange.

• Author: Valleriani, Matteo.
• TeilnehmendeR: Ottone, Andrea.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (497 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Editors and Contributors
• 1 Printers, Publishers, and Sellers: Actors in the Process of Consolidation of Epistemic Communities in the Early Modern Academic World
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Printers as a Collective Body of Actors
• 3 Production
• 4 Distribution
• 5 Consumption
• 6 Modes of Production of Early Modern Scientific Textbooks
• 7 Continuities and Further Research
• References
• 2 Printerly Ingenuity and Mathematical Books in the Early Estienne Workshop
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Printer's Ingenuity and Mathematical Books
• 3 Astronomical Practice in Frontispieces
• 4 Conclusion
• Appendix
• References
• 3 Erhard Ratdolt's Edition of Sacrobosco's Tractatus de sphaera: A New Editorial Model in Venice?
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Before Erhard Ratdolt: Sacrobosco in Italy
• 2 Erhard Ratdolt's Editions in the Venetian Context
• 2.1 Renner Versus Ratdolt
• 2.2 Ratdolt's Reinterpretation of Sacrobosco's Tractatus de sphaera
• 2.3 Sacrobosco and the Italo-German Comparison
• 2.4 Ratdolt's Reinterpretation
• 2.5 An Actualization of the Tractatus de sphaera
• 3 Diffusion and Reinterpretation of Ratdolt's Editorial Model
• 3.1 Diffusion of Ratdolt's Editions in Europe
• 3.2 Adaptations of Ratdolt's Model
• 3.3 Model Replaced: Sacrobosco's Posterity in Venice and in Europe
• 4 Conclusion
• References
• 4 Printers, Booksellers, and Bookbinders in Wittenberg in the Sixteenth Century: Real Estate, Vicinity, Political, and Cultural Activities
• 1 Wittenberg: An Intellectual Center in the Sixteenth Century
• 2 Printers, Booksellers, and Bookbinders in Wittenberg: An Overview on Their Real Estate
• 2.1 Publishers, Printers, Booksellers, and Bookbinders
• 3 Wittenberg Printers of the Sphaera and Their Real Estate
• 4 Examples of Vicinities: Hints to Social and Professional Networks.
• 5 Samuel Selfisch
• 6 Printers, Bookbinders, and Booksellers as Members of the Town Council
• 7 Conclusion
• Appendix: List of Houses Mentioned in the Text
• References
• 5 Scholars, Printers, and the Sphere: New Evidence for the Challenging Production of Academic Books in Wittenberg, 1531-1550
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Printers, Publishers, and Payments
• 3 Printing for the University of Wittenberg: Texts Between Intellectual and Economic Ambitions
• 4 Melanchthon's Close Ties to the Book Industry
• 5 Printing the Sphaera
• 6 Prices, Print Runs, and the Wittenberg Set of Woodblocks
• 7 Conclusion-Of Beasts, Harpies, and Men Made of Iron
• References
• 6 Sacrobosco at the Book Fairs, 1576-1624: The Pedagogical Marketplace
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Novi, emendatiores, auctiores ("New, Improved, Enlarged"): The modus operandi of Fairs and Its Effect on Publishing Practices
• 3 Scholastica: Lutheran Pedagogy, the Reformed Academies, and the Jesuits
• 4 The Clavius Factor: Basa and Ciotti
• 5 Lyon and St. Gervais
• 6 The Owl of Minerva and the cursus philosophicus: Mareschal and Morisanus
• 7 Some Conclusions
• References
• 7 The Iberian and New World Circulation of Sacrobosco's Sphaera in the Early Modern Period
• 1 Introduction
• 2 On the Distribution of the Tractatus de sphaera in the Iberian Peninsula (1472-1650)
• 2.1 Printers and Publishers of the Tractatus de sphaera in the Iberian Peninsula (1472-1650): Latin Editions
• 2.2 Printers and Publishers of the Tractatus de sphaera in the Iberian Peninsula (1472-1650): Editions in the Vernacular Languages
• 3 On the Circulation of Sacrobosco's Text in the Iberian Peninsula via Inventories of Bookshops and Libraries (1472-1650)
• 4 On the Circulation of the Tractatus de sphaera in America (1472-1650)
• 5 Conclusions
• References.
• 8 The Giunta's Publishing and Distributing Network and Their Supply to the European Academic Market
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Building an International Network
• 3 Sorting Out a Publishing Strategy
• 4 Maintaining a Profitable Business: The Social Profiling of the Giunta's Customers Through an Assessment of Costs and Prices
• 5 A Network of Information
• 6 The Giunta as Publishers of the Sphaera
• 7 Conclusions
• References
• 9 Mathematical Books in Paris (1531-1563): The Development of Publishing Strategies in a Competitive International Market
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Parisian Mathematical Books in an International Context
• 2.1 The Parisian Book Market and Its International Openness
• 2.2 The Circulation of Parisian Mathematical Books: A Few Clues
• 2.3 Toward a European Regulation of Production?
• 3 The Case of Guillaume Cavellat: A Publishing Strategy Centered on Mathematical Books
• 3.1 Cavellat's Status Within the Parisian Book Trade
• 3.2 The Constitution of a Catalogue
• 3.3 Cavellat's Collaborators
• 4 The Importance of Being Stylish
• 5 Conclusion
• References
• 10 Paratexts, Printers, and Publishers: Book Production in Social Context
• 1 Premise
• 2 The Research Question
• 3 The Corpus
• 4 Methodological Considerations
• 5 The Network
• 6 Interpretation
• 6.1 Geographical Distribution
• 6.2 Validation and Corroboration for Local Cooperation
• 6.3 Validation and Corroboration for Transregional Awareness
• 7 Conclusions and Outlook
• References
• 11 The Sphaera in Jesuit Education
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Early Years of Jesuit Education
• 3 Clavius: The Academy of Mathematics and Sphaera Commentary
• 4 Clavius' Publisher and Jesuit Printing Policy
• 5 Dedications and a Venetian Publisher
• 6 Clavius' Proposals for Jesuit Mathematical Education
• 7 In Defense of Mathematics.
• 8 Perera's Dismissal of Mathematics
• 9 The Ratio Studiorum of 1599
• 10 Mathematics Instruction after 1599
• 11 Conclusion
• References
• 12 Printing Sacrobosco in Leipzig, 1488-ca. 1521: Local Markets and University Publishing
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The "Leipzig Sacrobosco"
• 3 The Alma Mater Lipsiensis as a Local Market for the Sphaera
• 4 The Leipzig Sacrobosco Commentaries
• 5 Conclusion
• References
• 13 Publishing Mathematical Books of Parisian Calculatores (1508-1515)
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Pedro Sánchez Ciruelo and His Mathematical Program (1492-1500)
• 2.1 Ciruelo's Arrival in Paris and His Mathematical Books
• 2.2 Guy Marchant, Publisher of Ciruelo's Mathematical Books
• 2.3 Jean Petit and Guy Marchant
• 3 The Parisian Current of the Calculatores and Its Publishers (1508-1515)
• 3.1 Republishing Ciruelo's Arithmetical Texts Before the Calculatores
• 3.2 The Parisian Calculatores and the Colleges of Iberian Tradition
• 3.3 Publishers of Mathematical Books During the Calculatores Current
• 4 The End of the Calculatores Current
• References
• Index.