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Printers, Publishers, and Sellers: Actors in the Process of Consolidation of Epistemic Communities in the Early Modern Academic World

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Valleriani,  Matteo
Department Structural Changes in Systems of Knowledge, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Max Planck Society;

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Ottone,  Andrea
Department Structural Changes in Systems of Knowledge, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Max Planck Society;

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Valleriani, M., & Ottone, A. (2022). Printers, Publishers, and Sellers: Actors in the Process of Consolidation of Epistemic Communities in the Early Modern Academic World. In M. Valleriani, & A. Ottone (Eds.), Publishing Sacrobosco’s De sphaera in Early Modern Europe: Modes of Material and Scientific Exchange (pp. 1-23). Cham: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-86600-6_1.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000A-5D30-8
Abstract
This chapter proposes a global view of the set of dynamics of interplay that were generated in the early modern publishing sector around a single astro-nomical work, the Tractatus de sphaera by Johannes de Sacrobosco. The Sphaera, a thirteenth-century tract of geocentric cosmology, rather than remaining a static text, became over the centuries a multiauthored dynamic textual tradition. This essay argues that publishers, printers, and booksellers had a fair share of agency not only in perpetuating but also in shaping the evolution of this long-lasting textual tradition. The present essay traces the ways this agency was configured.