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Colin Scott,Henriette Lundgren,Paul Thompson. Evidently, then, the book’s constellation maps found favour among contemporary readers. The present chapter seeks to gain insight into the wider range of ways in which pre-modern readers used Piccolomini’s maps, by examining manuscript notes in two copies of De le Stelle Fisse, one printed in 1553

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Colin Scott,Henriette Lundgren,Paul Thompson is argued in this chapter, there are no clear indications that suggest that Piccolomini used any celestial coordinates to construct his maps. Instead, he may have copied its positional data from one of the three kinds of cartographic mappings available in the middle of the sixteenth century: conste

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Guide to Supply Chain Managementir inclusion in the book was not unusual in itself, given that, for centuries, Tables had been the primary tools of mathematical astronomy. The Tables designed by Piccolomini fit well in this astronomical tradition; but they also depart from it, in having an unusual and very specific purpose: they w

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Teaching the Constellations,r this purpose, Piccolomini designed an original method that utilizes a series of maps and tables which constitute the main features of his book. His approach is rightly acclaimed as the distant forerunner of what became in later centuries a successful genre of popular literature aimed at amateur star-gazers.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39730-2popular university textbook of his days, Sacrobosco’s De Sphaera while adding a number of topics. Central to the discussions in the present chapter are Piccolomini’s ideas on the ten-sphere universe, his understanding of precession and the related motion of the solar apogee, as well as the information he provides on cosmic dimensions.

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