Scientific meeting
☞ External linkBegins on: Tuesday 13 February 2018.Ends on: Thursday 15 February 2018.Location: Berlin Related institutions: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
The workshop focuses on the period of production of commentaries on The Sphere of Sacrobosco
from 1472, the year of the first printed publication, to 1650, by which time the relevance of the
treatise as a textbook had clearly declined.
The aim of the workshop is to determine what kind of intellectuals the authors of The Sphere were,
their educational and social backgrounds, how their careers developed after the publication of their
commentaries, the institutions and patrons they were affiliated with, what their agenda was, and
whether and how they actually accomplished it.
Related keywords: actors of the book trade,
book history,
early modern studies,
history of education,
history of science,
publisher,
relations between readers and/or books producers,
scientific book