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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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First Astronomically Accurate Latin Translation of Alfraganus
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CHRISTMANN, Jacob. Muhamedis Alfragani Arabis Chronologica et Astronomica. Frankfurt, Sons of Andreas Wechel, 1590.
First edition of an important and influential Latin version of the 9th C Persian astronomer Alfraganus (al-Farghānī), translated by Jacob Christmann, who was not only proficient in mathematical astronomy but one of the greatest Arabists of the Renaissance.
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