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Jan 01, 1995
Henry Savile and the Tychonic World-System
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
Vol. 58
No. 1
pp. 152-179
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For Savile's dependence on Ramus in his lectures cf. e.g. Bodleian Library MS Savile 29, fol. 6r, 'Eratosthenes, ut Eutocius ait.' with Petrus Ramus, Prooemium mathematicum,Paris1567, p. 106; or MS Savile 29, fol. 6', 'Physica illa quae dicitur.' with Ramus, op. cit., pp.199-200. This kind of unattributed quotation can be found on every page of Savile's early lectures. The list of auctores mathematici is written in the backof MS Savile28, a volume which forms part of his translation of Ptolemy's Almagest, made in the late 1560s. For its dependence on Ramus see e.g. the entries for Serenus and Diophantus (fol. 29r),
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Bodleian Library MS Savile 29, fol. 5r-v: 'Quum potiuscumplatone, plotino, ptolemaeo, Proclo, Alcinoo mathesis habeatur Kic xmti6Somv0 68bg,id est viaaddisciplinam, quodeandemcomparationem habeat (inquit Proclus) non ad mechanicam,
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sed ad riyv r&v 6vTcOvircnstJuyvacprimam philosophiam, quaminsti-tutio puerilis sustinet ad virtutem. Hunc tu finem artium liberalissimarum, Rame, cum Platone, Ptolemaeo, Proclo, et reliquis doctioribus philosophis
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et tuam nobis vehementer probasses eloquentiam, quam nunc quidem in tanta rerum foeditate contemnimus. Dii immortales, mathesin quae hucusque ab omni vitae commodo sacrosancta fuit ad mechanicae tractationem tanquam vilissimum aliquod pistrinum detrudi!' ('Mathematics is instead held to be the "path to learning", according to Plato, Plotinus, Ptolemy, Proclus
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and Alcinous. As Proclus says, it has the same relation to the knowledge of being, or first philosophy as childhood education has to virtue. I wish you had made this the end of the most liberal arts, Ramus, agreeing with Plato, Ptolemy, Proclus, and other philosophers more learned than
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These pages are reproduced in Gingerich and Westman (as in n. 12), pp. 132-5.
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Ibid., pp. 139-40; Thoren (as in n. 17), p. 247.
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See e.g. fols 94v and 203' of the Vatican De revolutionibus (Gingerich and Westman, as in n. 12, pp.113, 115) where this transformation is applied to the Copernican solar theory. The transformation itself, applied to the superior planets, is first described by Ptolemy,Almagest, xii.1, and developed in detail for all the
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The Astronomical Institute (1972)
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Tycho
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On Praetorius at Wittenberg see Westman (as in n. 25), pp. 290-1. In an elementary and popular textbook
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Robert Goulding (1995). Henry Savile and the Tychonic World-System. Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 58(1), 152-179. https://doi.org/10.2307/751509
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