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John De Foxton's Liber Cosmographiae (1408): An Edition And Codicological Study Liber Cosmographiae Liber Cosmographiae by John, of Foxton; Johannes, de Foxton; Johannes de Foxton; John Block Friedman is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Who can say how many books on Chaucer and his poetry or on the political ramifications of the Wars of the Roses were published in 1988, while literally hundreds of primary texts on the social, historical, and scientific background for those works remained unpublished, in medieval manuscripts, virtually inaccessible to the ordinary scholar. John B. Friedman's edition and codicological study of John de Foxton's 'Liber cosmographiae', published in 1988, is, then, a very welcome addition to the field, making available to us as it does the text of a significant compendium of fifteenth-century scientific lore. As Friedman points out in his introduction, the 'Liber cosmographiae' includes brief texts on "world history, angels, classical gods and personages, reason, memory and imagination, obstetrics, menstruation, diet, fortunes of men and women born in various astral conjunctions, eclipses, dew, comets, thunder, tides, and weather prediction according to the day of the week on which New Year falls, as well as the sort of straightforward account of the constellations and planets suggested by the title".

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Author

John, of Foxton; Johannes, de Foxton; Johannes de Foxton; John Block Friedman

Publisher

E. J. Brill

Published

1988

Language

EN

ISBN

9789004246546

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Computer Science, Reference