LEADER 03870nam 22006015 450 001 9911003577703321 005 20250530130732.0 010 $a3-031-90976-3 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-90976-4 035 $a(CKB)39124545300041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-90976-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32154205 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32154205 035 $a(OCoLC)1522509185 035 $a(EXLCZ)9939124545300041 100 $a20250530d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSpinning the Cosmos $eVolvelles in the Early Modern Commentary Tradition of Johannes de Sacrobosco?s De Sphaera /$fby Alica-Nana Citron 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Springer,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (VIII, 98 p. 44 illus., 33 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aSpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology,$x2211-4572 311 08$a3-031-90975-5 327 $aThe epistemological concept of volvelles -- The knowledge of the volvelles -- History of the volvelles -- De Sphaera editions -- Conclusion. 330 $aThis open access book investigates the epistemological concept of and the knowledge transfer interwoven with the moveable paper wheels found in medieval and early modern books?the so-called ?volvelles.? The earliest known volvelles emerged in the mid-thirteenth century and were cut out and installed by the reader, often appearing in books dealing with astronomical subjects. The brain processes and remembers images more easily than words?the so-called ?picture superiority effect??especially if the images move, making volvelles a useful method to help students of the Quadrivium memorizing the heavenly movements, thus the composition of a device embedded within a text promises a comprehensive insight into the didactic concepts of early modern knowledge transfer. The Tractatus de Sphaera by Johannes de Sacrobosco (1195?1256), the standard university textbook for astronomy from the thirteenth until the seventeenth century, was particularly noted as containing volvelles of different kinds. The project ?The Sphere,? located at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, has collected a corpus of 359 printed De sphaera editions, building a promising basis for examining different volvelles and placing the results in a cultural context. These volumes had never been analyzed in detail before, nor was there such a large corpus that could provide a quantitative database for such an investigation. The results of the book show that a book and knowledge tradition as widespread as that of the Sphaera contained more than one third of volvelles and was used in university teaching in the early modern period. For historians, this sheds light on a new aspect of movable paper instruments in university didactics and book history in the early modern period. 410 0$aSpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology,$x2211-4572 606 $aTechnology 606 $aHistory 606 $aTechnology$xPhilosophy 606 $aScience$xHistory 606 $aHistory of Technology 606 $aPhilosophy of Technology 606 $aHistory of Science 615 0$aTechnology. 615 0$aHistory. 615 0$aTechnology$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aScience$xHistory. 615 14$aHistory of Technology. 615 24$aPhilosophy of Technology. 615 24$aHistory of Science. 676 $a600.09 700 $aCitron$b Alica-Nana$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01821072 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911003577703321 996 $aSpinning the Cosmos$94384526 997 $aUNINA