Re: Commentary on Sacrobosco's De Sphaera

2007-05-18 Thread Sara Schechner
Dear Roger, Lynn Thorndike's edition of Sacrobosco and his commentators is well known and well-read by historians of astronomy, such as myself. But thanks for calling it to the attention of others, and for letting all of us know that it has been digitized. All best, Sara Sara Schechner, Ph.D.

Commentary on Sacrobosco's De Sphaera

2007-05-17 Thread Roger Bailey
I have been interested in armillary spheres for a while and gave a presentation* at the NASS conference in Montreal in 2001 on this topic. Today I was pleased to find at the University of Victoria library a reprint of this early 13th century treatise on astronomy, De Sphaera by Johannes de