Citation
Alternate Title(s): Demonstratio halonis
Notes: ms.
Publication Location: Wittenberg
Year: c. 1550
Item Location
Exhibit: Copernicus and Meteorology
Summary
This manuscript contains two transcriptions of a university lecture by Erasmus Reinhold. The diagrams are nearly identical to Aristotle’s discussion of halos in the Meteorology. Reinhold was a well-known Wittenberg astronomer, sympathetic to Copernicus. The migration of this diagram from meteorology to astronomy illustrates the remarkable interdisciplinary character of meteorology as well as the changing boundaries of disciplines in the Printing Revolution.
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Theme(s): Meteorology, History of the Book, Mathematics, Astronomy
Geographical Region(s): Europe, Germany
Resource Type: Manuscript
Chronological Period: 16th century
Resource Type: Manuscript