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Sphæra Ioannis de Sacrobosco, emendata. : Eliæ Vineti Santonis scholia in eandem sphæram, ab ipso auctore restituta. : Adiunximus huic libro compendium in sphæram, per Pierium Valerianum Bellunensem. : Et Petri Nonii Salaciensis demonstrationem eorum, quæ in extremo capite de climatibus Sacroboscius scribit de inæquali climatum latitudine, eodem Vineto interprete

Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230, Vinet, Elie, 1509-1587 · 1584 · Parisiis, : Apud Hieronymum de Marnef, & viduam Gulielmi Cauellat, sub Pelicano, Monte Diui Hilarij. · 53 pictures

A 1584 Paris edition of Sacrobosco's medieval astronomy textbook on the sphere, with commentary by the scholar Elie Vinet, printed for scholars and students of the heavens. Its pictures are small woodcut diagrams of armillary-style spheres, great circles, and shaded sections of the celestial sphere with labelled points and crosshatched areas, which a designer might use as clean, geometric line motifs for scientific or cosmic themes.

Astronomy

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