Opus sphericum magistri Ioa[n]nis de Sacro busco natione angli figuris verissime exculptis et i[n]terp[re]tatione familiari ad co[m]moditatem desiderantiu[m] iucundissima artis astronomice callere principia pulcherrime et iterata recognitione illustratum

Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230 · 1505 · Impressus Colonie : in bone recordationis Henrici Quentel penatibus · 13 pictures

A 1505 astronomy textbook by Johannes de Sacrobosco, printed in Cologne by the Quentel press, written as a Latin primer for students of the sphere and the heavens. Its pictures are woodcut diagrams of orbits, the spherical earth, habitable zones and geometric solids, drawn with clean line work and printed labels that a designer could borrow for schematic or map-style graphics.

Astronomy

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