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"Europe's Best Observatory" - Dibner
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HEVELIUS, Johannes. Machinae Coelestis pars prior; Organographiam, sive Instrumentum Astronomicorum omnium, quibus Auctor hactenus Sidera rimatus, ac dimensus est. Danzig, Simon Reininger for the Author, 1673.
Extremely rare first edition of this lavishly illustrated, privately printed description by Hevelius of his observatory, "Stellaburgum".
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With 194 Illustrations Of Machines
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RAMELLI, Agostino. Le Diverse et Artifiose Machine... Nelle quali si contengono varii et industriosi Movimenti, degni di Grandissima Speculatione, per cavarne beneficio infinito in ogni sorte d'operatione. Paris, for the author, 1588.
First and sole edition of this profusely illustrated landmark on early technology, and along with Agricola's De Re Metallica (1556), the most influential and copied of all the early illustrated manuals of inventions and machines.
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