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An Astronomical Perpetual Calendar
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SCANAVACCA, Bartolomeo. Novissima Inventione per dissegnare con grandissima facilite prestezza Horologi Solari, Italiani, Babilonici, e Francesi. Padova, Stamperia del Seminario per Bernardo Luciani, 1688.
Rare first and sole edition of this description of a sundial of the author's invention, which functioned as an astronomical perpetual calendar: determining for any day of the year the sun's rising, noon, setting, and mid-night, place of the sun in the Zodiac, etc. The work explains how to take basic measurements and co-ordinate them with the known physical points of Northern Italian cities through the calendar.
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Printed at the Press of St. Gall
Medieval Monks Enter the Modern World.
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[ST. GALL, MONASTERY OF] / SFONDRATI, Coelestino. Cursus Philosophicus Monasterii S. Galli. St. Gall, Typog. Monasteri S. Galli per J. M?m, 1695-6.
Extremely rare first edition of this extensively illustrated textbook of natural philosophy by the Abbot of St. Gall, the famous Benedictine monastery, showing the fundamentally medieval education undergone by monks there at the close of the 17th century.
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