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Astronomy
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The Most Influential Star Atlas of Its Time
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BAYER, Johann. Uranometria, omnium asterismorum continens schemata, nova methodo delineata, series laminis expressa. Augsburg, Christophorus Magnus, 1603.
A spectacular copy of the rare first edition of the most influential star atlas published in the first half of the seventeenth century and the first to represent the stars of the southern latitudes.
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“The ‘Opening Gun’ In the Campaign Against Galileo's Dialogo”
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[Galileiana] BERIGARD, Claudio [Claude Guillermet]. Dubitationes in dialogum Galilaei Galilaei Lyncei in Gymnasio Pisano mathematici supraordinarij. Florence, Petri Nesti, 1632.
Rare first and only edition of this understudied treatise, the first critique of Galileo’s Dialogo, by a staunch proponent of fixed-earth Aristotelianism.
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GALILEI, Galileo. Istoria e Dimostrazioni Intorno Alle Macchie Solari E Loro Accidenti Comprese In Tre Lettere Scritte All'Illustrissimo Signor Marco Velseri Linceo... Rome, Giacomo Mascardi, 1613.
First edition of one of the great books in the history of science, Galileo's observations of the sun.
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"One of the Most Celebrated Polemics In the History of Science" - Stillman Drake
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GALILEI, Galileo. Il Saggiatore nel quale con bilancia esquisita si ponderano le cose contenute nella Libra Astronomica... di Lotario Sarsi. Rome, Mascardi, 1623.
First edition, first issue of an outstanding document in the history of science.
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First German Copernicus Reference In the
Only Known Copy of a 1546 Prediction Pamphlet
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GASSER, Achilles Pirmin. Practica auff das M.D.XLvj. jar/ durch Doctorem Achillem P. Gasser L. zu Feldkirch gemacht. Nuremberg, J. Petreius, 1545.
Sole known copy of a prediction pamphlet for 1546 with the first reference to Copernicus printed in German as well as the first reference to helioicentrism in a vernacular language.
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