2020/01/01 by Angela Axworthy · 1 citation
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paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-30833-9_8
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Abstract This paper considers the contribution of the French mathematician Oronce Fine to the diffusion and transformation of Johannes de Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera by considering his 1516 edition of the Sphaera and his Cosmographia, sive sphaera mundi (in Protomathesis , 1532). The article first describes Fine’s life and career, as well as his work as editor of the Sphaera . In a second part, it considers what Fine, in the Cosmographia , has drawn and left aside from the Sphaera , revealing the consequent transformations to the teaching of Sacrobosco’s theory of the sphere and its adaptation to the cultural and intellectual environment in which Fine evolved. A last part considers the treatment, in the Cosmographia , of the cosmological representations transmitted by Sacrobosco and by subsequent interpreters of Ptolemaic astronomy concerning the number of celestial spheres and its relation to judicial astrology.