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The scientific works of Robert Grosseteste. Volume II, Mapping the universe : Robert Grosseteste's De sphera - On the sphere / edited by Giles E.M. Gasper, Tom C.B. McLeish, Hannah E. Smithson, Sigbjørn Olsen Sønnesyn. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarly editions online.
- Oxford scholarly editions online
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Astronomy--Early works to 1800.
- Astronomy.
- Geometry--Early works to 1800.
- Geometry.
- Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253. De sphera.
- Grosseteste, Robert.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxvi, 420 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), map (black and white).
- Other Title:
- Mapping the universe
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.
- Language Note:
- Text in English and Latin.
- Summary:
- Volume II in a series of five, 'Mapping the Universe' presents a multi-disciplinary and multi-author exploration of Robert Grosseteste's treatise On the Sphere, which is based, fundamentally, on a discussion of not just how astronomy operates but why.
- Contents:
- De sphera
- Appendix 1: Commissio Cancellarii Universitatis Oxon'-Concerning the Commission to the Chancellor of the University of Oxford.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2023.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contains:
- Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253. De sphera.
- Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253. De sphera. English.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-198697-6
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