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Philip Imser's Copy Of Apianus' 'Cosmography'
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[IMSER, Philip] APIANUS, Petrus / ed. FRISIUS, Gemma. Cosmographicus Liber. Antwerp, Johann Grapheus, 1533.
Unusually interesting copy of one of the most important geographical/astronomical texts of the Renaissance, annotated by the mathematician and clockmaker Philip Imser, a colleague of Apian's on the Mathematics faculty at the University of Tn.
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Trigonometry For The Practicing Astronomer
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CAGNOLI, Antonio. Trigonometria Piana e Sferica. Paris, Francesco Ambrogio Didot, 1786.
First edition of, according to Lalande, the best book of the period on trigonometry and its application to astronomy.
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CALCAGNINI, Celio. Opera Aliquot. Basel, March 1544.
First edition of this collection of writings of the Ferrarese humanist, posthumous but all appearing for the first time, including his proto-Copernican dissertation advocating the movement of the earth.
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CAVALIERI, Bonaventura / DAVISI, Urbano, ed.. Sfera Astronomica del Padre Bonaventura Cavalieri Lettore Primario delle Matematiche nello Studio di Bologna Con l'uso della Figura, e prattiche di Essa... Rome, Molo, 1690.
Rare first edition, second issue (?) of this work on planetary astronomy and selected physics problems by the great Bolognese mathematician Bonaventura Cavalieri, as edited by his disciple Urbano Davisi.
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"Copernicus First Scientific Work'
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COPERNICUS, Nicolaus. De Lateribus et angulis Triangulorum, tum planorum rectilineorum tum Sphaericorum, libellus eruditissimus & utilissimus, cum ad plerasque Ptolemaei demonstrationes intelligendas, tam vero ad alia multa... Wittenberg, Johannes Lufft, 1542.
Rare first edition of Copernicus' first scientific work, containing the first appearance of any part of the text of De Revolutionibus as well as Rheticus first published trigonometric tables.
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