Catalogue 36
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Astronomy
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Logarithms For Italian Astronomers
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CAVALIERI, Bonaventura. Trigonometria... Bologna, Vittorio Benacci, 1643.
First edition of this fundamental work of trigonometry and without doubt the best text on the subject published in Italy during this period.
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DANTI, Egnazio. Primo volume dell'uso et fabbrica dell'astrolabio et del planisferio. Con aggiunta dell'uso, & fabbrica di nove altri istromenti astronomici. Novamenta ristampata. Florence, Giunta, 1578.
Second augmented and improved edition of the first important book on the astrolabe and planisphere in the Italian language.
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The First Systematic Treatise On Plane And Spheric Trigonometry To Be Published In The West
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REGIOMONTANUS, Johannes. / Daniel SANTBECH, ed. De Triangulis Planis et Sphaericis libri quinque;
Tractatus super Propositiones Ptolemaei de sinubus & Chordis;
Compositio Tabularum Sinuum Recto;
Problematum Astro-nomicorum et Geometricorum... Basel, Henrich Petrus & Petrus Perna, 1561.
Rare augmented edition of "the first systematic treatise on plane and spheric trigonometry to be published in Europe." - Rose
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Riccioli's Testament With Two Lunar Maps
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RICCIOLI, G.B.. Astronomia Reformata. Bologna, Heirs of Vittorio Benacci, 1665.
Scarce first edition of Riccioli's anti-Copernican, Tychonic geo-centrist cosmology, presenting an astronomy reformed, so he claims, of theoretical as well as observational errors, and considered a conclusion to the Almagestum novum of 1651.
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Tycho's Observatory
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[BRAHE, Tycho]/RESEN, Peder Hansen. Inscriptiones Haffnienses Latinae Danicae et Germanicae Inscriptionibus Amagriensibus Uraniburgicis et Stellaeburgicis' Duabus Epsitolis una Tychonii Brahe ad Peucerum missa. Copenhagen, H. Gordianus, 1668.
Scarce first and only edition of this work on Danish antiquities, of considerable interest to the history of astronomy for containing extensive material on Tycho Brahe and his island observatory.
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