{"product_id":"publishing-sacroboscos-de-sphaera-in-early-modern-europe-modes-of-material-and-scientific-exchange-hardcover","title":"Publishing Sacrobosco's de Sphaera in Early Modern Europe: Modes of Material and Scientific Exchange - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatteo Valleriani\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAndrea Ottone\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis open access volume focuses on the cultural background of the pivotal transformations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eof scientific knowledge in the early modern period.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt investigates the rich edition history of Johannes de Sacrobosco's Tractatus de sphaera, \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eby far the most widely disseminated textbook on geocentric cosmology, from the unique\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003estandpoint of the many printers, publishers, and booksellers who steered this text from\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003emanuscript to print culture, and in doing so transformed it into an established platform\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eof scientific learning. The corpus, constituted of 359 different editions featuring\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSacrobosco's treatise on cosmology and astronomy printed between 1472 and 1650, \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003erepresents the scientific European shared knowledge concerned with the cosmological\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eworldview of the early modern period until far after the publication of Copernicus' \u003ci\u003eDe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003erevolutionibus orbium coelestium\u003c\/i\u003e in 1543.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe contributions to this volume show how the academic book trade influenced the\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eprocess of homogenization of scientific knowledge. They also describe the material\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003einfrastructure through which such knowledge was disseminated, and thus define the\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003epremises for the foundation of modern scientific communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatteo Valleriani\u003c\/b\u003e is Research Group Leader in Dept. I, Honorary Professor at the Technische Universität Berlin, Professor for Special Appointments at the Faculty of Humanities at Tel Aviv University, and Principal Investigator of the Project \"Images and Configurations in Corpora of University Textbooks\" at the Berlin Center for Machine Learning. In his research, he investigates processes of 1) emergence of scientific knowledge in relation to its practical, social, and institutional dimensions, and 2) homogenization of scientific knowledge in the framework of Cultural Heritage Studies. Centering on cosmological knowledge, Matteo Valleriani's current major research project is concerned with the evolution of the scientific knowledge system and with the establishment of a shared scientific identity in Europe in the period between the thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries. In the frame of this project he also co-develops and implements multi-layered network models (sphaera.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de). A further focus of his research is on the epistemic function of visual material in scientific research and in the framework of processes of knowledge transformation. Within this context he co-develops and applies machine learning technologies. Among his major publications: The Structures of Practical Knowledge, Springer Nature, 2017, Metallurgy, Ballistics and Epistemic Instruments: The \"Nova Scientia\" of Nicolò Tartaglia. A New Edition, Edition Open Access, 2013, Galileo Engineer, Springer, 2010. \u003cb\u003eAndrea Ottone\u003c\/b\u003e is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Economics of the University of Milan where he collaborates with Angela Nuovo's ERC founded project EMoBookTrade. In the frame of this project he studies the economic background of Venice's book industry in the Renaissance, with particular reference to costs and prices and the methods of market assessment. He is also fellow at Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin where he partakes to Matteo Valleriani's Sphaera project. In this context he assists the prime investigator in studying the mechanisms of material circulation Sacrobosco's printed editions in late Renaissance early Baroque Europe. He holds an adjunct position at the Technische Universität Berlin where he offers classes of European history with a focus on the history of communication, history of science in the frame of the Counter Reformation, and Renaissance empiricism in political thinking. Between 2007 and 2015, in the capacity of Graduate Teaching Associate, he taught classes of Western civilization and European history at the Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio). Between 2002 and 2012, in the frame of the RICI program (an Italy based project involving the University of Rome \"La Sapienza,\" University of Rome \"Tre,\" University of Milan \"Cattolica\" and University of Macerata), he extensively explored topics related to Cinquecento book censorship, Counter Reformation institutions, book circulation and the morphology of private and common book collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 492\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.18 x 9.45 x 6.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 26, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42170280804487,"sku":"9783030865993","price":97.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/d36a6432b37dc5ffe9eb2b0996bcf20d.webp?v=1733347144","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/publishing-sacroboscos-de-sphaera-in-early-modern-europe-modes-of-material-and-scientific-exchange-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}