Books: Full Bibliography

Recommended Reading

J. Bennett & D. Bertoloni Meli, Sphaera Mundi. Astronomy Books in the Whipple Museum 1478-1600, Cambridge 1994

C. de Hamel, A history of illuminated manuscripts, Oxford 1986

L. Jardine, Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance, London 1996, especially Ch. 3. "The Triumph of the Book", pp. 135-180

F. Johnson, "Astronomical text-books in the sixteenth century", in E. Underwood (ed.), Science, medicine and history: Essays in the evolution of scientific thought and medical thought written in honour of Charles Singer, 2 vols., 1953, vol. 1, pp. 285-302

Other texts

The Painted page: Italian Renaissance book illumination, 1450-1550, (ed.) Jonathan J.G. Alexander, Munich 1994, an exhibition catalogue which includes many beautiful examples.

E. Armstrong, Before Copyright: The French Book-Privilege System 1498-1526, Cambridge 1990

M.T.Clanchy, From memory to written record: England 1066-1307, London 1979

N. Z. Davis, "Beyond the Market: Books as Gifts in Sixteenth-Century France", Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 33 (5th series), pp. 69-88

David Diringer, The Book Before Printing, Ancient, Medieval and Oriental, New York 1953

J. Dreyer (ed.), Tychonis Brahe Dani Opera Omnia, 15 vols., Copenhagen 1913-1929

L. Febvre & H.-J. Martin, The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800, London & New York 1984

O. Gingerich, "Apianus' Astronomicum Caesareum and its Leipzig facsimile", Journal for the History of Astronomy 2, 1971, pp. 168-177

O. Gingerich, "The Censorship of Copernicus' De revolutionibus", Annali dell' Instituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze 6 f. 2, 1981, pp. 45-61

O. Gingerich & R. Westman, "The Wittich Connection: Conflict and Priority in Late Sixteenth-Century Cosmology", Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 78 part 7, 1988

A. Grafton, "Humanism and Science in Rudolphine Prague", in Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Scholarship in an Age of Science, 1450-1800, Cambridge, Mass. & London, pp. 178-203

P. Grendler, "Printing and Censorship", in C. Schmitt & Q. Skinner (eds.), The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy, Cambridge 1988, pp. 25-53

C. de Hamel, Scribes and Illuminators, London 1992, basic, but a clear and useful introduction.

C. D. Hellmann, The Comet of 1577. Its Place in the History of Astronomy, Columbia University Studies in History, Economics, etc. 510, New York 1944; reprinted 1971

N. Jardine, "The Places of Astronomy in Early-Modern Culture", Journal for the History of Astronomy, 29, 199, pp. 49-62

S. Lindberg, "Mobiles in Books. Volvelles, inserts, pyramids, divinations, and children's games", The Private Library 2 (3rd series), pp. 49-82

I. Pantin, "Les problèmes de l'édition des livres scientifiques: l'exemple de Guillaume Cavellat", in P. Aquilon, P. & J.-J. Martin (eds.), Le Livre dans l'Europe de la Renaissance, Tours 1988, pp. 240-251

J. Shipman, "Johannes Petreius, Nuremberg Publisher of Scientific Works 1524-1580, with a Short-Title List of His Imprints", in H. Lehman-Haupt (ed.), Homage to a Bookman: Essays in Manuscripts, Books and Printing written for Hans P. Kraus on his 60th Birthday, Berlin 1960

E. Tennant, "The protection of invention: Printing privileges in early modern Germany", in S. Schindler & G. Williams (eds.), Knowledge, Science and Literature in Early Modern Germany, Chapel Hill & London 1996

P. van der Krogt, Globi Neerlandici. The Production of Globes in the Low Countries, Utrecht 1993

W. Sherman, John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance, Amherst 1995

R. Westman, "Humanism and Scientific Roles in the Sixteenth Century", in R. Krafft & R. Schmitz, Humanismus und Naturwissenschaften, Boppard am Rhein 1980