MPIWG

The Sphere Knowledge System Evolution and the Shared Scientific Identity of Europe

Publications

2023

Book Chapters

  1. Valleriani, M., Kräutli, F., Lockhorst, D., & Shlomi, N. (2023). Vision on Vision: Defining Similarities Among Early Modern Illustrations on Cosmology [Book Section]. In M. Valleriani, G. Giannini, & E. Giannetto (Eds.), Scientific Visual Representations in History (pp. 99–137). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11317-8_4 Open Access

Journal Articles

  1. Zamani, M., El-Hajj, H., Vogl, M., Kantz, H., & Valleriani, M. (2023). A mathematical model for the process of accumulation of scientific knowledge in the early modern period [Journal Article]. Humanities and Social Science Communications, 10(533). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01947-w Open Access
  2. Eberle, O., Büttner, J., El-Hajj, H., Montavon, G., Müller, K.-R., & Valleriani, M. (2023). Insightful analysis of historical sources at scales beyond human capabilities using unsupervised Machine Learning and XAI. ArXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.09091 Open Access
  3. El-Hajj, H., Eberle, O., Merklein, A., Siebold, A., Shlomi, N., Büttner, J., Martinetz, J., Müller, K.-R., Montavon, G., & Valleriani, M. (2023). Explainability and transparency in the realm of digital humanities: toward a historian XAI. International Journal of Digital Humanities. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42803-023-00070-1 Open Access

Conference Articles

  1. El-Hajj, H., & Valleriani, M. (2023). Prompt me a Dataset: An investigation of text-image prompting for historical image dataset creation using foundation models. ArXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2309.01674 Open Access

online

  1. Valleriani, M. (2023). Studi storici con l’IA: verso le Digital Humanitie. https://www.agendadigitale.eu/cultura-digitale/studi-storici-con-lia-verso-le-digital-humanities/

2022

Journal Articles

  1. Büttner, J., Martinetz, J., El-Hajj, H., & Valleriani, M. (2022). CorDeep and the Sacrobosco Dataset: Detection of Visual Elements in Historical Documents. Journal of Imaging, 8(10). https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging8100285 Open Access
  2. El-Hajj, H., Zamani, M., Büttner, J., Martinetz, J., Eberle, O., Shlomi, N., Siebold, A., Montavon, G., Müller, K.-R., Kantz, H., & Valleriani, M. (2022). An Ever-Expanding Humanities Knowledge Graph: The Sphaera Corpus at the Intersection of Humanities, Data Management, and Machine Learning [Journal Article]. Datenbank-Spektrum: Zeitschrift Für Datenbanktechnologien Und Information Retrieval. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13222-022-00414-1 Open Access
  3. Valleriani, M. (2022). From the Quadrivium to Modern Science [Journal Article]. HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology, 16(1), 34–45. https://doi.org/10.2478/host-2022-0007 Open Access
  4. Valleriani, M., Federau, B., & Nicolaeva, O. (2022). The Hidden Praeceptor: How Georg Rheticus Taught Geocentric Cosmology to Europe [Journal Article]. Perspectives in Science, 30(3), 407–436. https://doi.org/10.1162/posc_a_00421 Open Access
  5. Siebold, A., & Valleriani, M. (2022). Digital Perspectives in History [Journal Article]. Histories, 2(2), 170–177. https://doi.org/10.3390/histories2020013 Open Access
  6. Valleriani, M., Vogl, M., El-Hajj, H., & Pham, K. (2022). The Network of Early Modern Printers and Its Impact on the Evolution of Scientific Knowledge: Automatic Detection of Awareness Relations [Journal Article]. Histories, 2(4), 466–503. https://doi.org/10.3390/histories2040033 Open Access

Book Chapters

  1. Valleriani, M., & Kräutli, F. (2022). The Necessity of Linked Data alias Thinking Big in Computational History. In Person und Wissen. Bilanz und Perspektive (pp. 171–191). vdf Hochshulverlag AG. https://vdf.ch/person-und-wissen-e-book.html Open Access
  2. Grendler, P. F. (2022). The «Sphaera» in the Jesuit Education [Book Section]. In M. Valleriani & A. Ottone (Eds.), Publishing Sacrobosco’s «De sphaera» in Early Modern Europe. Modes of Material and Scientific Exchange (pp. 369–407). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86600-6_11 Open Access
  3. Hennen, I. C. (2022). Printers, Booksellers and Bookbinders in Wittenberg in the Sixteenth Century: Real Estate, Vicinity, Political and Cultural Activities [Book Section]. In M. Valleriani & A. Ottone (Eds.), Publishing Sacrobosco’s «De sphaera» in Early Modern Europe. Modes of Material and Scientific Exchange (pp. 99–146). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86600-6_4 Open Access
  4. Kremer, R. L. (2022). Printing Sacrobosco in Leipzig, 1488–ca. 1521: Local Markets and University Publishing [Book Section]. In M. Valleriani & A. Ottone (Eds.), Publishing Sacrobosco’s De sphaera in Early Modern Europe. Modes of Material and Scientific Exchange (pp. 409–457). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86600-6_12 Open Access
  5. Levy, A. (2022). Publishing Mathematical Books of Parisian Calculatores (1508–1515) [Book Section]. In M. Valleriani & A. Ottone (Eds.), Publishing Sacrobosco’s De sphaera in Early Modern Europe. Modes of Material and Scientific Exchange (pp. 459–484). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86600-6_13 Open Access
  6. Limbach, S. (2022). Scholars, Printers, and the Sphere: New Evidence for the Challenging Production of Academic Books in Wittenberg, 1531–1550 [Book Section]. In M. Valleriani & A. Ottone (Eds.), Publishing Sacrobosco’s «De sphaera» in Early Modern Europe. Modes of Material and Scientific Exchange (pp. 147–185). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86600-6_5 Open Access
  7. Maclean, I. (2022). Sacrobosco at the Book Fairs, 1576–1624: The Pedagogical Marketplace [Book Section]. In M. Valleriani & A. Ottone (Eds.), Publishing Sacrobosco’s «De sphaera» in Early Modern Europe. Modes of Material and Scientific Exchange (pp. 187–224). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86600-6_6 Open Access
  8. Oosterhoff, R. J. (2022). Printerly Ingenuity and Mathematical Books in the Early Estienne Workshop [Book Section]. In M. Valleriani & A. Ottone (Eds.), Publishing Sacrobosco’s De sphaera in Early Modern Europe. Modes of Material and Scientific Exchange (pp. 25–59). Sringer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86600-6_2 Open Access
  9. Pantin, I. (2022). Mathematical Books in Paris (1531–1563): the Development of Editorial Policies in a Competitive International Market [Book Section]. In M. Valleriani & A. Ottone (Eds.), Publishing Sacrobosco’s «De sphaera» in Early Modern Europe. Modes of Material and Scientific Exchange (pp. 289–335). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86600-6_9 Open Access
  10. Rideau-Kikuchii, C. (2022). Erhard Ratdolt’s Edition of Sacrobosco’s «Tractatus de sphaera:» A New Editorial Model in Venice? [Book Section]. In M. Valleriani & A. Ottone (Eds.), Publishing Sacrobosco’s «De sphaera» in Early Modern Europe. Modes of Material and Scientific Exchange (pp. 61–98). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86600-6_3 Open Access
  11. Ulla Lorenzo, A. (2022). The Iberian and New World Circulation of Sacrobosco’s «Sphaera» in the Early Modern Period [Book Section]. In M. Valleriani & A. Ottone (Eds.), Publishing Sacrobosco’s «De sphaera» in Early Modern Europe. Modes of Material and Scientific Exchange (pp. 225–254). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86600-6_7 Open Access
  12. Valleriani, M., & Ottone, A. (2022). Printers, Publishers, and Sellers: Actors in the Process of Consolidation of Epistemic Communities in the Early Modern Academic World [Book Section]. In Publishing Sacrobosco’s «De sphaera» in Early Modern Europe. Modes of Material and Scientific Exchange (pp. 1–24). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86600-6_1 Open Access
  13. Valleriani, M., & Sander, C. (2022). Paratexts, Printers, and Publishers: Book Production in Social Context [Book Section]. In M. Valleriani & A. Ottone (Eds.), Publishing Sacrobosco’s «De sphaera» in Early Modern Europe. Modes of Material and Scientific Exchange (pp. 337–367). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86600-6_10 Open Access

Books

  1. Valleriani, M., & Ottone, A. (2022). Publishing Sacrobosco’s «De sphaera» in Early Modern Europe. Modes of Material and Scientific Exchange [Edited Book]. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86600-6 Open Access

2021

Journal Articles

  1. El-Hajj, H., & Valleriani, M. (2021). CIDOC2VEC: Extracting Information from Atomized CIDOC-CRM Humanities Knowledge Graphs. Information, 12(12). https://doi.org/10.3390/info12120503

Book Chapters

  1. Kräutli, F., Chen, E., & Valleriani, M. (2021). Linked Data Strategies for Conserving Digital Research Outputs [Book Section]. In K. Golub & Y.-H. Liu (Eds.), Information and Knowledge Organisation in Digital Humanities (pp. 206–224). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003131816-10 Open Access

Theses

  1. Litke, K. (2021). Die humanistische Bearbeitung eines mittelalterlichen Traktats im 16. Jahrhundert – Élie Vinet scholia zur Sphaera des Johannes de Sacrobosco [Thesis]. Freie Universistät Berlin.

Books

  1. Malpangotto, M. (2021). «Theoricae novae planetarum Georgii Peurbachii.» Dans l’histoire de l’astronomie [Book]. CNRS Edition.

2020

Book Chapters

  1. Andrade Martins, R. de. (2020). André do Avelar and the teaching of Sacrobosco’s Sphaera at the University of Coimbra [Book Section]. In M. Valleriani (Ed.), De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period: The Authors of the Commentaries (pp. 313–358). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30833-9_10 Open Access
  2. Axworthy, A. (2020). Oronce Fine and Sacrobosco: From the Edition of the Tractatus de sphaera (1516) to the Cosmographia (1532) [Book Section]. In M. Valleriani (Ed.), De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period: The Authors of the Commentaries (pp. 185–264). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30833-9_8 Open Access
  3. Barker, P. (2020). John of Glogów [Book Section]. In M. Valleriani (Ed.), De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period: The Authors of the Commentaries (pp. 137–160). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30833-9_6 Open Access
  4. Buning, M. (2020). Fashioning Cosmology: Franco Burgersdijk as the Author of the Dutch Tractatus de sphaera [Book Section]. In M. Valleriani (Ed.), De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period: The Authors of the Commentaries (pp. 359–389). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30833-9_11 Open Access
  5. Crowther, K. M. (2020). Sacrobosco’s Sphaera in Spain and Portugal [Book Section]. In M. Valleriani (Ed.), De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period: The Authors of the Commentaries (pp. 161–184). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30833-9_7 Open Access
  6. Lanuza-Navarro, T. M. C. (2020). Pedro Sánchez Ciruelo. A Commentary on Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera with a Defense of Astrology [Book Section]. In M. Valleriani (Ed.), De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period: The Authors of the Commentaries (pp. 53–89). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30833-9_3 Open Access
  7. Nenci, E. (2020). Francesco Capuano da Manfredonia [Book Section]. In M. Valleriani (Ed.), De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period: The Authors of the Commentaries (pp. 91–110). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30833-9_4 Open Access
  8. Oosterhoff, R. J. (2020). A Lathe and the Material Sphaera: Astronomical Technique at the Origins of the Cosmographical Handbook [Book Section]. In M. Valleriani (Ed.), De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period: The Authors of the Commentaries (pp. 25–52). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30833-9_2 Open Access
  9. Pantin, I. (2020). Borrowers and Innovators in the Printing History of Sacrobosco: The Case of the “in-octavo” Tradition [Book Section]. In M. Valleriani (Ed.), De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period: The Authors of the Commentaries (pp. 265–312). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30833-9_9 Open Access
  10. Valleriani, M. (2020). Prolegomena to the Study of Early Modern Commentators on Johannes de Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera [Book Section]. In M. Valleriani (Ed.), De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period: The Authors of the Commentaries (pp. 1–23). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30833-9_1 Open Access
  11. Valleriani, M., & Citron, N. (2020). Conrad Tockler’s Research Agenda [Book Section]. In M. Valleriani (Ed.), De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period: The Authors of the Commentaries (pp. 111–136). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30833-9_5 Open Access

Books

  1. Valleriani, M. (Ed.). (2020). De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period: The Authors of the Commentaries [Edited Book]. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30833-9 Open Access

Journal Articles

  1. Eberle, O., Büttner, J., Kräutli, F., Müller, K.-R., Valleriani, M., & Montavon, G. (2020). Building and Interpreting Deep Similarity Models [Journal Article]. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2020.3020738 Open Access
  2. Kräutli, F., Lockhorst, D., & Valleriani, M. (2020). Calculating Sameness: Identifying Early-Modern Image Reuse Outside the Black Box [Journal Article]. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqaa054 Open Access
  3. Zamani, M., Tejedor, A., Vogl, M., Kräutli, F., Valleriani, M., & Kantz, H. (2020). Evolution and Transformation of Early Modern Cosmological Knowledge: A Network Study [Journal Article]. Scientific Reports - Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-76916-3 Open Access

Theses

  1. Citron, N. (2020). Praktisches Wissen und Astronomie im Spätmittelalter [Thesis, Technische Universität Berlin]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4059208 Open Access

2019

Books

  1. Beyer, V. (2019). How to Generate a Fingerprint: Vol. Preprint [Book]. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/sites/default/files/P499_online.pdf Open Access
  2. Biank, J. (2019). Pseudo-Proklos’ Sphaera. Die Sphaera-Gattung im 16. Jahrhundert [Book]. Edition Open Sources. http://www.edition-open-sources.org/sources/12/index.html Open Access
  3. Horst, T. (2019). The Reception of Cosmography in Vienna: Georg von Peuerbach, Johannes Regiomontanus, and Sebastian Binderlius: Vol. Preprint [Book]. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/sites/default/files/P494_online_1.pdf Open Access

Journal Articles

  1. Valleriani, M., Kräutli, F., Zamani, M., Tejedor, A., Sander, C., Vogl, M., Bertram, S., Funke, G., & Kantz, H. (2019). The Emergence of Epistemic Communities in the Sphaera Corpus: Mechanisms of Knowledge Evolution [Journal Article]. Journal of Historical Network Research, 3, 50–91. https://doi.org/10.25517/jhnr.v3i1.63 Open Access

2018

Journal Articles

  1. Kräutli, F., & Valleriani, M. (2018). CorpusTracer: A CIDOC Database for Tracing Knowledge Networks [Journal Article]. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqx047 Open Access
  2. Sander, C. (2018). Johannes de Sacrobosco und die Sphaera-Tradition in der katholischen Zensur der Frühen Neuzeit [Journal Article]. NTM Zeitschrift Für Geschichte Der Wissenschaften, Technik Und Medizin, 26(4), 437–474. https://doi.org/10.1007/S00048-018-0199-6 Open Access
  3. Valleriani, M. (2018). Maths is revolutionising the study of history – here’s how [Journal Article]. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/maths-is-revolutionising-the-study-of-history-heres-how-85710 Open Access

Theses

  1. Franke, J. (2018). Tractatus De Spera im Wandel der Zeit. Ein Vergleich zwischen der Rekonstruktion des Ursprungstextes von Lynn Thorndike in englischer Sprache und einer deutschsprachigen Version (1614) von Johann Georg Triegler [Thesis]. Technische Universität Berlin.

2017

Book Chapters

  1. Valleriani, M. (2017). The Tracts on The Sphere. Knowledge Restructured over a Network [Book Section]. In M. Valleriani (Ed.), Structures of Practical Knowledge (pp. 421–473). Springer.