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Alternate Title(s): Demonstratio halonis
Notes: ms.
Author: Erasmus Reinhold
Publication Location: Wittenberg
Year: c. 1550

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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
Chronological Period: 16th century
Geographical Region(s): Europe, Germany
Resource Type: Manuscript