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GALGEMAYR’S PROPORTIONAL COMPASS
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GALGEMAYR, G.. Organon logikon, Kurtzer grundtlicher...Underricht, Zuberaitung und gebrauch, Des Circkels Schregmess und Linial in wahrer proportion. Augsburg, Weh, 1655.
Rare edition and a fine copy of Galgemayr's very influential text describing the construction & use of two instruments, a proportional compass and a lineal compass for the measurement of volumes and surfaces.
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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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THE FIRST PRINTED REFERENCE TO COPERNICUS’ HELIOCENTRISM
IN A MODERN EUROPEAN LANGUAGE
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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, containing “the first explicit mention of Copernicus in any publication in the German language” (Danielson), as well as the first reference to heliocentrism in a vernacular language.
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A Gorgeous Globe Book
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HABRECHT, Isaac /STURM, J.C.. Planiglobium Coeleste Ac Terestre Platte Stern-und Lander-Kugel... Nurnberg, 1666.
Extremely rare German edition (a Latin edition was published the same year) of Sturm's enlargement of Habrecht's famous Tractatum de planiglobis coelesti & terrestri on the making of celestial and terrestrial globes, published in 1628.
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THE PROPORTIONAL COMPASS COMES TO FRANCE
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HENRION, D.. Usage du compas de Proportion. Paris, Michel Daniel, 1618.
Very rare first edition of this illustrated work on the proportional compass, probably the first such work published in France, and indisputably the book to popularize use of the instrument in that country.
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