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Ioannis de Sacrobusto libellus de sphæra. : accessit eiusdem autoris computus ecclesiasticus, et alia quædam in studiosorum gratiam edita. : cum præfatione Philippi Melanthonis

Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230, Melanchthon, Philipp, 1497-1560 · 1549 · Impressum Vitebergæ, : apud Vitum Creuzer · 36 pictures

Ioannis de Sacrobusto's Libellus de sphaera, a 1549 Latin astronomy textbook printed at Wittenberg by Vitus Creuzer with a preface by Philipp Melanchthon, written for students of the sphere and calendar. Its pictures are simple woodcut diagrams of concentric orbits, planetary paths and star positions, offering a designer clean geometric schematics with strong circles, radiating lines and small star bursts.

Astronomy · Church calendar

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