Opera Omnia

Chater, James; Ferrabosco, Alfonso; Charteris, Richard

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“…They shared a love for music and Rhau was a frequent guest at Luther's house for nights of music with friends, including Melanchthon. 109 Rhau applied his expertise in music to his work as a printer, creating a niche market for himself with the production of music books. 110 He also displayed creativity and originality with works on nature, including a successful book entitled Ein newes Pflanzbüchlein (A new plant booklet), which in 1529 became the first published book on gardening and was reprinted an additional ten times in numerous cities.…”

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Printing the Weather: Knowledge, Nature, and Popular Culture in Two Sixteenth-Century German Weather Books

Johnston

2020

Renaiss. Q.

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This article analyzes two vernacular German books that offered learned guidance for how to use natural observation as a means of gaining knowledge of the weather. Published a combined seventy-seven times throughout the sixteenth century, the “Wetterbüchlein” (Weather booklet) and “Bauern Practica” (Peasants’ practica) were commercially successful and widely circulated. Printers marketed the books as being accessible to anyone and reinforced that claim in the paratextual features of the books. In text and image, these books promoted the idea that even common people could participate in the production of knowledge based on the proper observation of nature.

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Section: Wittenberg and The Second Wave Of New Editions 1530-49mentioning

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Printing the Weather: Knowledge, Nature, and Popular Culture in Two Sixteenth-Century German Weather Books

Johnston

2020

Renaiss. Q.

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Printing the Weather: Knowledge, Nature, and Popular Culture in Two Sixteenth-Century German Weather Books

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