Sacrobosco: Full Bibliography

Recommended Reading

J. Bennett & D. Bertoloni Meli, Sphaera Mundi: Astronomy Books in the Whipple Museum 1478-1600, Cambridge 1994, pp. 14-15, 32-44, 65

F. Johnson, 'Astronomical text-books in the sixteenth century', in E. Underwood (ed.), Science, Medicine and History, Oxford 1953, vol. I, pp. 285-302

W. Knorr, 'Sacrobosco's Quadrans: Date and Sources', Journal for the History of Astronomy 28 (1983), pp.187-222

J. Moreton, 'John of Sacrobosco and the Calendar', Viator 25 (1994), pp. 229-244

J. North, 'The Western Calendar - "Intolerabilis, Horribilis, et Derisibilis"; Four Centuries of Discontent' in G. Coyne, M. Hoskin & O. Pedersen (eds.), Gregorian Reform of the Calendar, Vatican City 1983, pp. 75-113

O. Pedersen, 'In quest of Sacrobosco', Journal for the History of Astronomy 16 (1985), pp. 175-221

L. Thorndike, The Sphere of Sacrobosco and Its Commentators, Chicago 1949

Other Texts

F. Pedersen, Petri Philomenae de Dacia et Petri De. S.Audomaro Opera Quadrivialia, Copenhagen 1983-1984