Rheticus as Editor of Sacrobosco

  • Edward Rosen
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Part of the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science book series (BSPS, volume 15)

Abstract

In his recent three-volume study of Copernicus’ disciple Rheticus, K. H. Burmeister1 discussed an edition of Johannes Sacrobosco2 which contained both his Sphere 3 and his Computus (Wittenberg: Klug, 1538). Referring to Rheticus’ professorship of astronomy at Wittenberg University, Burmeister continued:

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Notes

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    Karl Heinz Burmeister, Georg Joachim Rhetikus 1514–1574 Eine Bio-Bibliographie, Pressler, Wiesbaden, 1967–1968. Reviewed by Edward Rosen, Isis 59 (1968) 231–233; 60 (1969) 117–119; 61 (1970) 137–139.Google Scholar
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    Lynn Thorndike, The Sphere of Sacrobosco and its Commentators, University of Chicago Press, 1949. Reviewed by Edward Rosen, Isis, 40 (1949) 257–263.Google Scholar
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    Reprinted in Corpus reformatorum, Braunschweig, Halle, 1834–1860, II, 530-537.Google Scholar
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    Op. cit., Computus sig. A4v; Burmeister, ‘Georg Joachim Rhetikus und Achilles Pirmin Gasser,’ Schriften des Vereins für Geschichte des Bodensees und seiner Umgebung 86 (1968) 217–225; idem, ‘Achilles Gasser als Stadtarzt von Feldkirch’, Montfort 3 (1968) 1–17.Google Scholar
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    Burmeister, Rhetikus, III, 162; Edward Rosen, ‘Rheticus’ Earliest Extant Letter to Paul Eber’, Isis 61 (1970) 384.Google Scholar
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Edward Rosen
    • 1
  1. 1.City University of New YorkUSA

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