Prosdocimus de Beldemandis
He studied at the University of Padua and the University of Bologna. The earliest works by him date from the early 15th century (dated 1408–9 in the manuscript Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ashburnham 206). He took the doctorate in arts at Padua on 15 May 1409, and received a physician's license on 15 April 1411.
Also recorded as Prosdocimo de' Beldomandi
Prosdocimus de Beldemandis
- Born
- 1375 · Padua.
- Died
- 1428
- Occupation
- mathematician · musicologist · astronomer · music theorist · writer · physicist
- Education
- University of Padua
- Languages
- Latin
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He studied at the University of Padua and the University of Bologna. The earliest works by him date from the early 15th century (dated 1408–9 in the manuscript Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ashburnham 206). He took the doctorate in arts at Padua on 15 May 1409, and received a physician's license on 15 April 1411.
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Prosdocimus de Beldemandis (1375–1428) was an astronomer, mathematician and music theorist, among other activities. The astronomer was born in Padua.
Prosdocimus de Beldemandis studied at University of Padua. The astronomer worked for University of Padua. Languages used include Latin.
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In 1412 he stayed in Montagnana, where he wrote a number of treatises. 1420/22 to 1428, the year of his death, Prosdocimus taught a wide variety of subjects at Padua. His was interested in, among other things, arithmetic, music, astronomy, and astrology; this range of interests, however, was common for a Paduan doctor of his day. He wrote the last significant treatise on the art of musical notation as practiced by the Italians. He was among the last music theorists to advocate for the Italian system of rhythmic notation (in the Tractatus pratice cantus mensurabilis ad modum Ytalicorum of 1412) and argued against Johannes Ciconia's division of the tone into twelve equal parts.
• Expositiones tractatus pratice cantus mensurabilis Johannis de Muris (c. 1404) • Tractatus pratice cantus mensurabilis (1408) • Brevis summula proportionum quantum ad musicam pertinet (1409) • Contrapunctus (1412), edited by Jan Herlinger, 1984 • Tractatus pratice cantus mensurabilis ad modum Ytalicorum (1412) • Tractatus plane musice (1412), edited by Jan Herlinger, 2008 • Parvus tractatulus de modo monacordum dividendi (1413), edited by Jan Herlinger • Tractatus musice speculative (1425), edited by Jan Herlinger, 2008
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• Algorismus de integris sive pratica arismetrice de integris (1410), reprinted Federicus Delphinus ed. (Venice, 1483 and 1540).
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• Černušák Gracián: Dějiny evropské hudby; Panteon, Prag, 35-305-64; s. 60
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