A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 2 (of 2): During the First Thirteen Centuries of Our EraThorndike, Lynn
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A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 2 (of 2): During the First Thirteen Centuries of Our Era
Thorndike, Lynn
Magic -- History; Science -- History
Johannes Campanus (of Novara) is of course well known
for his _Theory of the Planets_ and translation of
and commentary on Euclid. Perhaps less familiar works
are: Additional 22772, 15th century, Johannis Campani
Novarensis liber astronomicus de erroribus Ptolemaei,
dedicated to Pope Urban IV; Amplon. Quarto 349, late 14th
century, fols. 57-65, de figura sectorum; indeed, the
collection of Amplonius at Erfurt is rich in works by
Campanus. Concerning him see further HL XXI (1847) 248-54
and Duhem III (1915) 317-21. They hold that Campanus
is not called John in the MSS. His letter to Urban IV
(1261-1265) and Simon of Genoa’s dedication of this
_Clavis sanationis_ in 1292 to “master Campanus, chaplain
of the pope and canon at Paris,” serve to date him in the
later 13th century.
John of Cilicia (apparently the same as John of Sicily),
Harleian 1, fols. 92-151, Scripta super Canones Arzachelis
de tabulis Toletanis.
John Dastine (or Dastyn), among whose treatises on alchemy
may be mentioned Ashmole 1446, fols. 141-54v, “Incipit
epistola ... ad Papam Johannem XXII transmissa de
alchimia”; also found in CU Trinity 1122, 14-15th century,
fol. 94v-.
Johannes de Dondis, Laud. Misc. 620, 16th century, “Opus
Planetarii Johannis de Dondis, fisici, Paduani civis.”
Iohannes Egidii Zamorensis, Berlin 934, 14th century, 242
fols., de historia naturali; it includes a reproduction of
John of Spain’s 39 chapters on the astrolabe.
John of Florence, Magliabech. XI-22; XVI-66, fols. 260-301,
“Incipit liber de magni lapidis compositione editus a
magistro artis generalis florentino.... / ... Explicit
secretum secretorum mineralis lapidis mag Io.”
Joannes de Janua (Genoa), BN 7281, 7322, Canon eclypsium;
7281, Investigatio eclipseos solis 1337; 7282, Canones
Tabulares. He is classed by Duhem IV (1916) 74-, as a
disciple of Jean des Linières.
Joannes de Lineriis, BN 7281, 15th century, #9, Theorica
planetarum ed. anno 1335, #11, Canones tabularum Alphonsi
anno 1310; and other astronomical treatises in BN 7282,
7285, 7295, 7295A, 7329, 7378A, 7405, etc. Gonville and
Caius 110, 14th century, pp. 1-6, Canones super magnum
almanach omnium planetarum a mag. Iohanne de Lineriis
picardi ambianensis dyocesis, compositum super meridianum
parisiensem. See also Duhem IV (1916) 60-68, “Jean des
Linières.”
Ioannes Lodoycus Tetrapharmacus, S. Marco XIV-38, 14th
century, 160 fols., “Antidotarius Galaf Albucassim
Açarauni a Ioanne Lodoyco Tetrapharmaco gebenensi filio
Petri fructiferi mathematici ... de arabico in latinum
translatus” (1198 A. D.).
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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