Abstract

GOMEZ MARTINEZ, Marta. Didactic Keys in an Astronomy Manual: Sacrobosco's De Sphaera Mundi. Relac. Estud. hist. soc. [online]. 2013, vol.34, n.135, pp.39-58. ISSN 2448-7554.

This article analyzes those structural and conceptual aspects of a didactic nautre that appear in Castilian translations of Sacrobosco's De Sphaera Mundi, the astronomy manual used in universities in Western Europe from the 13^th through the 17^th centuries. The choices that the translators offer in relation to the structure of the book, the disposition of its contents, and the selection of a specialized lexicon, reveal the manual's didactic keys; that is, the author's intention to transmit specialized knowledge. Because De Sphaera Mundi gathers the basic knowledge concerning the universe that had circulated since Antiquity, it is a fundamental manual that provides an introduction to the study of the science of the heavens and stars.

Keywords : didactics; history of astronomy; history of translation; specialized lexic.

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