Re: VMs: "Zodiac" signs and Regulus

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

I've had a very quick response to my question about Regulus on the HASTRO-L 
mailing list from Robert H. van Gent ( 
http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/homepage.htm ). He replied:-

> According to Kunitzsch the earliest use of the name Regulus appears to be by
> Johannes Werner (1468-1528) in his work _De motu octaue sphaerae tractatus
> primus_, included in  _Libellus Ioannis Verneri Nuremburgen, super
> vigintiduobus elementis conicis_ (Nuremberg, 1522).
>
> The name Regulus was also used by Petrus Apianus (1495-1552) in his
> _Cosmographicus Liber_ (first edition publ. in 1524, Landeshut & Antwerp)
> and in his _Horoscopion Apiani generale_ (Ingolstadt, 1533).
>
> Also in the 1528 edition of the Almagest translation completed in 1451 by
> Georgius Trapezuntus (_Claudii Ptolemaei Pheludiensis Alexandrini Almagestum
> seu Magnae Constructionis Mathematicae Opus_, Venice, 1528).
>
> You can find details in
>
> Paul Kunitzsch, _Peter Apian und Azophi: Arabische Sternbilder
> in Ingolstadt im frühen 16. Jahrhundert_ (Munich, 1986 [=
> _Sitzungsberichte der Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften_,
> Philosphisch-Historische Klasse, Jahrgang 1986, Heft 3]),
> pp. 53-56 [Exkurs III].

Perhaps someone here could try to track down this short paper?

What I find particularly fascinating here is the mention of George of 
Trebizond's 1451 translation of Ptolemy's Almagest - I've emailed John 
Monfasani to see whether George himself is likely to have coined the name 
"Regulus".

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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