La reutilización del saberChristophorus Clavius y su teoría de los crepúsculos
ISSN: 0719-2215, 0719-689X
Year of publication: 2022
Issue: 22
Pages: 25-34
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista Chilena de Estudios Medievales
Abstract
Throughout the 16th century the increase in scientific production forces some authors to create models based on previous scientific works. These reuses, that include patterns of intertextuality and hypertextuality, is what I analyze from a linguistic point of view. How a scientific tradition, that which has to do with twilights, reached the end of this century, when the German Christophorus Clavius (1538-1612) inserted in his In sphaeram Ioannis de Sacro Bosco Commentarius a booklet entitled Digressio geometrica de crepusculis, whose pattern is De crepusculis by the Portuguese mathematician Pedro Nunes (1502-1578), who had already included in his 1542 work the literal transcription of the Liber de crepusculis by Gerardo de Cremona (1114-1187), a Latin version of the Maqala fi l-fayr wa-l-šafaq from Ibn Mu'ad alGayyani (d. 1093).