About the Selected Editions
In conjunction with History of Science 323, The Scientific Revolution, taught in fall and spring semesters 2007-2008 by Prof. Florence Hsia, the Department of Special Collections, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, has digitized several pages from each of its editions of the works of Sacrobosco (Joannes de Sacro Bosco [John of Holywood], fl. 1230). These include images requested by teams of students in the spring 2008 course for use in their class presentations.
Additional information from a preliminary survey of editions is available at the Web site Johannes de Sacrobosco, Editions of the Tractatus de Sphaera, maintained by the Group of History and Theory of Science, University of Campinas, Brazil.
Front cover of a 20th-century binding for the Ratdolt edition of 1482 of Sacrobosco's treatise on the sphere. From the W. Reeder Family Collection.
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