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Rheticus as Editor of Sacrobosco

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For Dirk Struik

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

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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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  1. 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.

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  2. Lynn Thorndike, The Sphere of Sacrobosco and its Commentators, University of Chicago Press, 1949. Reviewed by Edward Rosen, Isis, 40 (1949) 257–263.

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  4. Reprinted in Corpus reformatorum, Braunschweig, Halle, 1834–1860, II, 530-537.

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  5. Sacrobosco, Sphaera and Computus, Wittenberg 1538, Computus sig. A4r.

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  9. Burmeister, Rhetikus, III, 162; Edward Rosen, ‘Rheticus’ Earliest Extant Letter to Paul Eber’, Isis 61 (1970) 384.

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  1. City University of New York, USA

    Edward Rosen

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  1. Center for the Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University, USA

    Robert S. Cohen , John J. Stachel  & Marx W. Wartofsky ,  & 

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Rosen, E. (1974). Rheticus as Editor of Sacrobosco. In: Cohen, R.S., Stachel, J.J., Wartofsky, M.W. (eds) For Dirk Struik. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2115-9_20

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