MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
05015
Record number:
05015-1
JCB call number:
A537 S123s (copy 1)
Image title:
[Cosmographer at work]
Place image published:
[Venice]
Image publisher:
[Bartholomeo Zanetti, for Juan Ortega de Carrion in Florence]
Image date:
[1537]
Image function:
plate, following title page
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
17.6 cm.
Image dimension width:
11.1 cm.
Page dimension height:
21 cm.
Page dimension width:
15.3 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Cosmographer or astrologer writes in a notebook while leaning on a globe showing Europe, Africa and America. In the distance are ships with sun, moon, windheads. Decorative elements include navigational instruments such as dividers, astroblabe, hour glass, and quadrant, lute, music, and astrological figures such as Venus, Mercury, Saturn, Mars, and Jove [Jupiter].
Source creator:
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230
Source Title:
[Sphaera. Italian ] Sphera uolgare nouamente tradotta con molte notande additioni di geometria, cosmographia ... et mouimenti di tutti li corpi celesti, cose certamente rade et marauigliose
Source place of publication:
Impresso in Venetia [Venice]
Source publisher:
per Bartholomeo Zanetti ad instantia & requisitione di m. Giouann'Orthega de Carion Burgense Hyspano Comorante in Firenze
Source date:
M.D.XXXVII [1537]
notes:
Sacro Bosco's works on astronomy drew heavily on the classical and Arabic learning newly rediscovered by Europeans during the early thirteenth century. This work was the most famous of his books and was a basic account of spherical geometry.
Time Period:
1492-1600
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1889.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Astronomy
Subject headings:
World maps

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