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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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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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Dedicatee's Copy "The First Opening For a Scientific Treatment Of a Remarkable Subject” – DNB
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BRADLEY, James. A letter to the Right Honourable George, Earl of Macclesfield, concerning an apparent motion observed in some of the fixed stars. London, 1747.
First edition, separately printed, of Bradley's letter announcing his discovery of nutation of the earth's axis, and the dedicatee's copy, bearing stamps from the library of the Earl of Macclesfield, himself a keen amateur astronomer.
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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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