Astronomy teaching changed substantially across two centuries of European universities. This paper analyzes more than 350 editions of the Sphaera Corpus — textbooks used to teach astronomy from the late fifteenth to the mid-seventeenth century — by building a six-layer multiplex network from the …

Based on semantic, content-related data from 359 printed editions of astronomy textbooks used to teach cosmology at European universities between 1472 and 1650, this paper investigates how new epistemic communities emerge. Editions are grouped into families that share content, showing how these …