Colophon: Basel, Cratander, 1534.
Canones super Novum Instrumentum Luminarium, docentes quo pacto per illud inveniantur Solis & Lunae medii & veri motus, lunationes, coniunctiones, oppositiones, caput draconis, eclipses, horae inaequales, & nocturnae aequales, ortus solis & occasus, ascendens coeli, intervallum, aureus numerus, &c.
Very rare first Latin edition of one of Sebastian Münster’s (1488-1552) earliest astronomical works, the Canones super Novum Instrumentum Luminarium, a treatise on the use of an elaborate device known as the Instrumentum Novum (‘New Instrument’). The volume instructs users how to calculate such astronomical information as the appearance of..... More
