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Arrow and eagle from BL Harley 2506, f. 40

Drawing of an arrow, and of an eagle, with the constellations marked as red dots. Image taken from f. 40 of Phaenomena (also known as the Aratea). Written in Latin. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a colle... More

Hare from BL Harley 2506, f. 41v

Drawing of the Hare [Lepus], with the stars marked as red dots. Image taken from f. 41v of Phaenomena (also known as the Aratea). Written in Latin. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a collection of medieval... More

Canis Major from BL Harley 2506, f. 44v

Drawing of the constellation the dog, Canis Major, with the stars picked out as red dots. Image taken from f. 44v of Phaenomena (also known as the Aratea). Written in Latin. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers t... More

Centaur and Hydra from BL Harley 2506, f. 44

Drawings of the constellations Centaur (Centaurus), stretching his hand towards the Altar, holding the Beast (Fera), and below, the Hydra. Image taken from f. 44 of Phaenomena (also known as the Aratea). Writt... More

Drawing from BL Harley 2506, f. 40v

Drawing of Delphinus, the Dolphin, with the constellations marked as red dots. Image taken from f. 40v of Phaenomena (also known as the Aratea). Written in Latin. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a collect... More

Orion from BL Harley 2506, f. 41

Drawing of Orion and his dog. Image taken from f. 41 of Phaenomena (also known as the Aratea). Written in Latin. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a collection of medieval manuscripts held in the British Li... More

Eagle from BL Harley 2506, f. 40

Detail of drawing of the eagle, with the constellations marked as red dots. Image taken from f. 40 of Phaenomena (also known as the Aratea). Written in Latin. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a collection ... More

Image from BL Harley 2506, ff. 42v-43

Image taken from ff. 42v-43 of Phaenomena (also known as the Aratea). Written in Latin. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a collection of medieval manuscripts held in the British Library in London. The Harl... More

Text page from BL Harley 2506, f. 45

Text page. Image taken from f. 45 of Phaenomena (also known as the Aratea). Written in Latin. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a collection of medieval manuscripts held in the British Library in London. Th... More

Aquarius from BL Harley 2506, f. 36

Detail of a drawing of the constellation Aquarius. Image taken from f. 36 of Phaenomena (also known as the Aratea). Written in Latin. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a collection of medieval manuscripts h... More

Swan from BL Harley 2506, f. 38

Drawing of the Swan, or Bird (Cygnus). Image taken from f. 38 of Phaenomena (also known as the Aratea). Written in Latin. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a collection of medieval manuscripts held in the B... More

Capricorn from BL Harley 2506, f. 39

Drawing of the constellation Capricorn, with the stars picked out as red dots. Image taken from f. 39 of Phaenomena (also known as the Aratea). Written in Latin. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a collecti... More

Text page from BL Harley 2506, f. 37v

Text page. Image taken from f. 37v of Phaenomena (also known as the Aratea). Written in Latin. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a collection of medieval manuscripts held in the British Library in London. T... More

Drawing from BL Harley 2506, f. 43v

Drawing of Ara, the Altar. Image taken from f. 43v of Phaenomena (also known as the Aratea). Written in Latin. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a collection of medieval manuscripts held in the British Libr... More

Image from BL Harley 2506, f. 42v

Image taken from f. 42v of Phaenomena (also known as the Aratea). Written in Latin. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a collection of medieval manuscripts held in the British Library in London. The Harley M... More

Pisces from BL Harley 2506, f. 36v

Drawing of the constellation Pisces, with the stars picked out as red dots. Image taken from f. 36v of Phaenomena (also known as the Aratea). Written in Latin. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a collection... More

Drawing from BL Harley 2506, f. 37

Drawing of Perseus holding Medusa's severed head, with red dots for the constellations. Image taken from f. 37 of Phaenomena (also known as the Aratea). Written in Latin. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a... More

[Illustrated page with vignette showing Aristotle? pointing to the sta...

Public domain illustrated book page scan, medieval or early renaissance, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

World map - Public domain vintage map

As the first map printed in two colors, this is a monument to map printing. The place names in capital letters were printed in red ink by means of type set into the woodblocks. The decorative windheads, zodiaca... More

Opuscul¯u de Sphera m¯udi Joannis de Sacro Busto c¯u additionibus et f...

Public domain scan of manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Schema huius praemissae divisionis sphaerarum [page 5]

Picryl description: Public domain image of Amiens Cathedral, France, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Haec est forma vivaque torqueti mago suis, et numeris, ...

Print shows a torquetum, a 16th century measuring device. Illus. in: Astronomicum cæsareum. [Ingolstadii : 1540]. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Br... More

Nicolai Copernici Toriensis De revolvtionibvs orbium cœlestium, [Title...

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated title page book scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri...

De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri VI Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Sefer Tsurat ha-arets = Sphaera Mundi

Picryl description: Public domain vintage illustrated book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Planimetriam, hoc est, longitudinum mensuram per astrolabium experíri

Print shows an astrolabe being used to measure a tower. Illus. in: Elvcidatio fabricæ vsvsqve astrolabii, [Elucidatio fabricae ususque astrolabii] Ioanne Stoflerino Ivstingensi authore ... Adiectus est index r... More

Coelvm stellatvm Christianvm ...Avgvstae Vindelicorvm, Praelo A. Aperg...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage illustrated book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The figure of the World. - Public domain vintage map

In upper right corner: p. 2. includes text and 4 diagrams. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy has red-bordered label affixed to verso, with 516/1 written in ink. ... More

Fig. 1. Systema Ptolemaecum, Fig. 2. Systema Platonicum, Fig. 3. Syste...

Public domain image of scientific diagram, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Athanasius Kircher - Empyreum ...

Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Athanasius Kircher - Iter extaticum Kircheranium... , [Title page]

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated title page book scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Planisphaerium Ptolemaicum siue machina orbium mundi ex hypothesi Ptol...

While most of the maps in this exhibit depict just the Earth -- reflecting mankind's perception of his immediate and perceived environment -- very few address the planet's position in the larger universe. Howev... More

Systema cosmicvm, autore Galilaeo Galilaei... [Title page]

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated title page book scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Dialogvs de systemate mvndi. ... , [Added title page]

Public domain scan of 17th century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Polus Antarcticus] : Terra Australis Incognita - Vintage map, Norman ...

Terra Australis Incognita | Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Novissima totius terrarum orbis tabula

Shows California as an island. Includes illustrations, including scenes of the four seasons. Ancillary maps and charts: Incrementum et decrementum dierū -- Phasis lunae naturalis -- Hypothesis Tychonican -- Hyp... More

Astronomica Institutio, [Frontispiece]

Public domain reproduction of art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Planisphaerivm Aratevm sive Compages Orbivm Mvndanorvm ex hypothesi Ar...

Appears in Andreas Cellarius' Harmonia macrocosmica. Amstelodami : Apud Gerardum Valk & Petrum Schenk, 1708. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy accompanied by pho... More

Scientia terrarum et coelorum : or, the heavens and earth astronomical...

Relief shown by hachures. "As the act directs 20th November 1772." Includes extensive text, tables, and many small astronomical maps, as well as the larger maps and charts listed below. Ancillary maps and diagr... More

Tobias Conrad Lotter - Planisphaerium coeleste : secundum restitutione...

Hevelius style, Eimmart format; hemispheres, ecliptic pole to ecliptic, with non-Ptolemaic constellations. Warner p. 164 Stamped in blue ink in lower left margin: 316A. Includes 6 diagrams and 4 globes and armi... More

Planisphaerium coeleste. - Public domain vintage map

Stamped in blue ink in lower left margin: 76A. Includes 6 diagrams. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

This image shows a comparison between a Magellan image (right) and the...

This image shows a comparison between a Magellan image (right) and the highest resolution Earth-based radar image of Venus, obtained by the US National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center's Arecibo Observatory in P... More

Tractatum de spera quatuor capitulis distinguimus ... Theorica planeta...

Titles from opening lines on p. 1 and explicit on p. [81]. The Sphaera mundi is by Joannes de Sacro Bosco. The Theorica planetarum is usually considered to be by the Cremona astrologer Gherardo da Sabbioneta, ... More

Isidori iunioris Hispalensis episcopi prologus in librum de responsion...

Title from caption, leaf [1]1. Imprint from colophon. Signatures: [1]⁸ ([1]1+chi1) [2]¹²(-[2]12). Possibly issued with his Etymologiae (19 Nov. 1472). Cf. Goff. Goff I-191 Hain 9302* GW M15281 BM 15th cent., II... More

Nouiciis adolfscentibus sic: ad astronomicam rempu. capessendam aditum...

Title from incipit; imprint from colophon. Signatures: 1-6⁸ 7¹⁰. Goff J-406 Hain-Copinger 14111 BM 15th cent., V, p. 290 (IA. 20546) Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) ij00406000 LC copy has some hand-colored i... More

Flores Albumasaris - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sca...

Known as Flores astrologiae. Probably an abridgment of De magnis coniunctionibus, translated by Joannes Hispalensis from the author's Kitāb aḥkām sinī al-mawālīd and other of his works. Cf. Sarton's An in... More

Compilatio Leupoldi, ducatus Austrie filij, de astrorum scientia, dece...

Rosenwald 133 Goff L-185 Hain-Copinger 10042 BM 15th cent., II, p. 382 (IA.6679) IGI 5747 LC copy rubricated; woodcuts part hand-colored. Contemporary marginalia; notes and verse at end. Ex libris Liechtensteinianis.

Albumasar de magnis coniunctionibus, annorum reuolutionibus, ac eorum ...

Translation by Joannes Hispalensis of the author's Kitāb aḥkām tahāwīl sinī al-mawālīd and other writings, based in great part on al-Kindī. Cf. Sarton. An introd. to the hist. of science, I, p. 568, an... More

Textus De Sphera Iohannis de Sacrobosco : Cum Additione (quantum neces...

Imprint from colophon, transposed: date appears first. Printed by Johann Higman for Wolfgang Hopyl. Cf. ISTC. Signatures: a⁸ b⁶ c¹⁰. Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, J-414 Hain, L. Repertorium bibli... More

Epytoma Ioannis de Monte Regio in Almagestum Ptolomei

Woodcut title. Begun by Georg von Peurbach. Edited by Giovanni Abiosi. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Goff R-111 Hain-Copinger 13806 BM 15th cent., V, p. 427 (IB.23380) IGI ... More

Iulii Firmici Astronomicorum libri octo integri & emendati ... Marci M...

This collection, edited by Franciscus Niger, is titled by Hain "Scriptores astronomici veteres." First colophon dated June 1499. Printer's epistle on leaf [1b] dated "decimosexto Calendas nouem." Goff F-191 Hai... More

Hieronymi Fracastorii Homocentrica : eiusdem de causis criticorum dier...

Place of printing from colophon. The Homocentrica was previously published under title: Homocentrica, sive, De stellis. Error in foliation: leaf 78 numbered 73. Signatures: pi⁴ A-S⁴ T⁶. LC copy has a bookseller... More

Opera mathematica Ioannis Schoneri in vnvm volvmen congesta ..

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. "Tabvlae astronomicae ... correctae & locupletatae. Praefatio Philippi Melanchthonis in easdem Astronomiae commendatoria" (clxxii l.) has half... More

Hieronymi Cardani ... In Cl. Ptolemaei ... IIII De astrorum judiciis ,...

With: Cardano, Girolamo. Hieronymi Cardani Mediolanensis medici De subtilitate libri XXI. Basileæ, per Ludovicum Lucium, 1554. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Ioh. Keppleri mathematici olim imperatorii Somnivm, seu opvs posthvmvm...

LAC ecr 2018-10-29 update (1 card) LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2018-11-06

Machinae coelestis : pars prior-posterior..

Some plates by the author; some by I. Saal after A. Stech. Added engr. t.p. (repeated in vols., by J. Falck after A. Boy. Portrait in v. 2) by L. Visscher after A. Stech. L.C. copy lacks plate QQ in v. 2. Inclu... More

Isidori iunioris Hispalensis episcopi prologus in librum de responsion...

Title from caption, leaf [1]1. Imprint from colophon. Signatures: [1]⁸ ([1]1+chi1) [2]¹²(-[2]12). Possibly issued with his Etymologiae (19 Nov. 1472). Cf. Goff. Goff I-191 Hain 9302* GW M15281 BM 15th cent., II... More

Tractatum de spera quatuor capitulis distinguimus ... Theorica planeta...

Titles from opening lines on p. 1 and explicit on p. [81]. The Sphaera mundi is by Joannes de Sacro Bosco. The Theorica planetarum is usually considered to be by the Cremona astrologer Gherardo da Sabbioneta, ... More

Iohannis de Sacrobusto, Anglici, uiri clarissimi, Spera mundi felicite...

Titles from p. [1], [57] (incipits, printed in red). The Theorica planetarum is usually considered to be by the Cremona astrologer Gherardo da Sabbioneta, although some authorities ascribe it to the Gerardus Cr... More

Nouiciis adolfscentibus sic: ad astronomicam rempu. capessendam aditum...

Title from incipit; imprint from colophon. Signatures: 1-6⁸ 7¹⁰. Goff J-406 Hain-Copinger 14111 BM 15th cent., V, p. 290 (IA. 20546) Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) ij00406000 LC copy has some hand-colored i... More

Flores Albumasaris - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sca...

Known as Flores astrologiae. Probably an abridgment of De magnis coniunctionibus, translated by Joannes Hispalensis from the author's Kitāb aḥkām sinī al-mawālīd and other of his works. Cf. Sarton's An in... More

Albumasar de magnis coniunctionibus, annorum reuolutionibus, ac eorum ...

Translation by Joannes Hispalensis of the author's Kitāb aḥkām tahāwīl sinī al-mawālīd and other writings, based in great part on al-Kindī. Cf. Sarton. An introd. to the hist. of science, I, p. 568, an... More

Compilatio Leupoldi, ducatus Austrie filij, de astrorum scientia, dece...

Rosenwald 133 Goff L-185 Hain-Copinger 10042 BM 15th cent., II, p. 382 (IA.6679) IGI 5747 LC copy rubricated; woodcuts part hand-colored. Contemporary marginalia; notes and verse at end. Ex libris Liechtensteinianis.

Textus De Sphera Iohannis de Sacrobosco : Cum Additione (quantum neces...

Imprint from colophon, transposed: date appears first. Printed by Johann Higman for Wolfgang Hopyl. Cf. ISTC. Signatures: a⁸ b⁶ c¹⁰. Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, J-414 Hain, L. Repertorium bibli... More

Tabule tabularum celestium motuum astronomi Zacuti nec non stelarum fi...

Leaf [17a]: Almenach p[er]petuum cuyus radix e[st] anu[m] [sic] co[m]positu[m] ab excelentisimo magistro in astronomia nomine Bocat[us] Zecutus. Translated by Jospeh Vinicus. Goff Z-14 Hain-Copinger 16267 GW 11... More

Epytoma Ioannis de Monte Regio in Almagestum Ptolomei

Woodcut title. Begun by Georg von Peurbach. Edited by Giovanni Abiosi. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Goff R-111 Hain-Copinger 13806 BM 15th cent., V, p. 427 (IB.23380) IGI ... More

Iulii Firmici Astronomicorum libri octo integri & emendati ... Marci M...

This collection, edited by Franciscus Niger, is titled by Hain "Scriptores astronomici veteres." First colophon dated June 1499. Printer's epistle on leaf [1b] dated "decimosexto Calendas nouem." Goff F-191 Hai... More

Hieronymi Fracastorii Homocentrica : eiusdem de causis criticorum dier...

Place of printing from colophon. The Homocentrica was previously published under title: Homocentrica, sive, De stellis. Error in foliation: leaf 78 numbered 73. Signatures: pi⁴ A-S⁴ T⁶. LC copy has a bookseller... More

Opera mathematica Ioannis Schoneri in vnvm volvmen congesta ..

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. "Tabvlae astronomicae ... correctae & locupletatae. Praefatio Philippi Melanchthonis in easdem Astronomiae commendatoria" (clxxii l.) has half... More

Hieronymi Cardani ... In Cl. Ptolemaei ... IIII De astrorum judiciis ,...

With: Cardano, Girolamo. Hieronymi Cardani Mediolanensis medici De subtilitate libri XXI. Basileæ, per Ludovicum Lucium, 1554. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Ioh. Keppleri mathematici olim imperatorii Somnivm, seu opvs posthvmvm...

LAC ecr 2018-10-29 update (1 card) LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2018-11-06

Tychonis Brahe mathim. eminent. Dani. : Opera omnia, sive, Astronomiae...

Imprint transposed: date appears before place and printer. Signatures: ):(² A-3N⁴ 3O⁴(-3O4) a-2d⁴ 2e1. Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 3784 Includes index. LC copy forms part of the ... More

Machinae coelestis : pars prior-posterior..

Some plates by the author; some by I. Saal after A. Stech. Added engr. t.p. (repeated in vols., by J. Falck after A. Boy. Portrait in v. 2) by L. Visscher after A. Stech. L.C. copy lacks plate QQ in v. 2. Inclu... More

Isidori iunioris Hispalensis episcopi prologus in librum de responsion...

Title from caption, leaf [1]1. Imprint from colophon. Signatures: [1]⁸ ([1]1+chi1) [2]¹²(-[2]12). Possibly issued with his Etymologiae (19 Nov. 1472). Cf. Goff. Goff I-191 Hain 9302* GW M15281 BM 15th cent., II... More

Iohannis de Sacrobusto, Anglici, uiri clarissimi, Spera mundi felicite...

Titles from p. [1], [57] (incipits, printed in red). The Theorica planetarum is usually considered to be by the Cremona astrologer Gherardo da Sabbioneta, although some authorities ascribe it to the Gerardus Cr... More

Nouiciis adolfscentibus sic: ad astronomicam rempu. capessendam aditum...

Title from incipit; imprint from colophon. Signatures: 1-6⁸ 7¹⁰. Goff J-406 Hain-Copinger 14111 BM 15th cent., V, p. 290 (IA. 20546) Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) ij00406000 LC copy has some hand-colored i... More

Flores Albumasaris - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sca...

Known as Flores astrologiae. Probably an abridgment of De magnis coniunctionibus, translated by Joannes Hispalensis from the author's Kitāb aḥkām sinī al-mawālīd and other of his works. Cf. Sarton's An in... More

Albumasar de magnis coniunctionibus, annorum reuolutionibus, ac eorum ...

Translation by Joannes Hispalensis of the author's Kitāb aḥkām tahāwīl sinī al-mawālīd and other writings, based in great part on al-Kindī. Cf. Sarton. An introd. to the hist. of science, I, p. 568, an... More

Compilatio Leupoldi, ducatus Austrie filij, de astrorum scientia, dece...

Rosenwald 133 Goff L-185 Hain-Copinger 10042 BM 15th cent., II, p. 382 (IA.6679) IGI 5747 LC copy rubricated; woodcuts part hand-colored. Contemporary marginalia; notes and verse at end. Ex libris Liechtensteinianis.

Textus De Sphera Iohannis de Sacrobosco : Cum Additione (quantum neces...

Imprint from colophon, transposed: date appears first. Printed by Johann Higman for Wolfgang Hopyl. Cf. ISTC. Signatures: a⁸ b⁶ c¹⁰. Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, J-414 Hain, L. Repertorium bibli... More

Epytoma Ioannis de Monte Regio in Almagestum Ptolomei

Woodcut title. Begun by Georg von Peurbach. Edited by Giovanni Abiosi. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Goff R-111 Hain-Copinger 13806 BM 15th cent., V, p. 427 (IB.23380) IGI ... More

Iulii Firmici Astronomicorum libri octo integri & emendati ... Marci M...

This collection, edited by Franciscus Niger, is titled by Hain "Scriptores astronomici veteres." First colophon dated June 1499. Printer's epistle on leaf [1b] dated "decimosexto Calendas nouem." Goff F-191 Hai... More

Hieronymi Fracastorii Homocentrica : eiusdem de causis criticorum dier...

Place of printing from colophon. The Homocentrica was previously published under title: Homocentrica, sive, De stellis. Error in foliation: leaf 78 numbered 73. Signatures: pi⁴ A-S⁴ T⁶. LC copy has a bookseller... More

Opera mathematica Ioannis Schoneri in vnvm volvmen congesta ..

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. "Tabvlae astronomicae ... correctae & locupletatae. Praefatio Philippi Melanchthonis in easdem Astronomiae commendatoria" (clxxii l.) has half... More

Hieronymi Cardani ... In Cl. Ptolemaei ... IIII De astrorum judiciis ,...

With: Cardano, Girolamo. Hieronymi Cardani Mediolanensis medici De subtilitate libri XXI. Basileæ, per Ludovicum Lucium, 1554. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Ioh. Keppleri mathematici olim imperatorii Somnivm, seu opvs posthvmvm...

LAC ecr 2018-10-29 update (1 card) LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2018-11-06

Machinae coelestis : pars prior-posterior..

Some plates by the author; some by I. Saal after A. Stech. Added engr. t.p. (repeated in vols., by J. Falck after A. Boy. Portrait in v. 2) by L. Visscher after A. Stech. L.C. copy lacks plate QQ in v. 2. Inclu... More

Isidori iunioris Hispalensis episcopi prologus in librum de responsion...

Title from caption, leaf [1]1. Imprint from colophon. Signatures: [1]⁸ ([1]1+chi1) [2]¹²(-[2]12). Possibly issued with his Etymologiae (19 Nov. 1472). Cf. Goff. Goff I-191 Hain 9302* GW M15281 BM 15th cent., II... More

Nouiciis adolfscentibus sic: ad astronomicam rempu. capessendam aditum...

Title from incipit; imprint from colophon. Signatures: 1-6⁸ 7¹⁰. Goff J-406 Hain-Copinger 14111 BM 15th cent., V, p. 290 (IA. 20546) Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) ij00406000 LC copy has some hand-colored i... More

Flores Albumasaris - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sca...

Known as Flores astrologiae. Probably an abridgment of De magnis coniunctionibus, translated by Joannes Hispalensis from the author's Kitāb aḥkām sinī al-mawālīd and other of his works. Cf. Sarton's An in... More

Compilatio Leupoldi, ducatus Austrie filij, de astrorum scientia, dece...

Rosenwald 133 Goff L-185 Hain-Copinger 10042 BM 15th cent., II, p. 382 (IA.6679) IGI 5747 LC copy rubricated; woodcuts part hand-colored. Contemporary marginalia; notes and verse at end. Ex libris Liechtensteinianis.

Albumasar de magnis coniunctionibus, annorum reuolutionibus, ac eorum ...

Translation by Joannes Hispalensis of the author's Kitāb aḥkām tahāwīl sinī al-mawālīd and other writings, based in great part on al-Kindī. Cf. Sarton. An introd. to the hist. of science, I, p. 568, an... More

Textus De Sphera Iohannis de Sacrobosco : Cum Additione (quantum neces...

Imprint from colophon, transposed: date appears first. Printed by Johann Higman for Wolfgang Hopyl. Cf. ISTC. Signatures: a⁸ b⁶ c¹⁰. Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, J-414 Hain, L. Repertorium bibli... More

Tabule tabularum celestium motuum astronomi Zacuti nec non stelarum fi...

Leaf [17a]: Almenach p[er]petuum cuyus radix e[st] anu[m] [sic] co[m]positu[m] ab excelentisimo magistro in astronomia nomine Bocat[us] Zecutus. Translated by Jospeh Vinicus. Goff Z-14 Hain-Copinger 16267 GW 11... More

Epytoma Ioannis de Monte Regio in Almagestum Ptolomei

Woodcut title. Begun by Georg von Peurbach. Edited by Giovanni Abiosi. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Goff R-111 Hain-Copinger 13806 BM 15th cent., V, p. 427 (IB.23380) IGI ... More

Iulii Firmici Astronomicorum libri octo integri & emendati ... Marci M...

This collection, edited by Franciscus Niger, is titled by Hain "Scriptores astronomici veteres." First colophon dated June 1499. Printer's epistle on leaf [1b] dated "decimosexto Calendas nouem." Goff F-191 Hai... More

Hieronymi Fracastorii Homocentrica : eiusdem de causis criticorum dier...

Place of printing from colophon. The Homocentrica was previously published under title: Homocentrica, sive, De stellis. Error in foliation: leaf 78 numbered 73. Signatures: pi⁴ A-S⁴ T⁶. LC copy has a bookseller... More

Opera mathematica Ioannis Schoneri in vnvm volvmen congesta ..

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. "Tabvlae astronomicae ... correctae & locupletatae. Praefatio Philippi Melanchthonis in easdem Astronomiae commendatoria" (clxxii l.) has half... More

Hieronymi Cardani ... In Cl. Ptolemaei ... IIII De astrorum judiciis ,...

With: Cardano, Girolamo. Hieronymi Cardani Mediolanensis medici De subtilitate libri XXI. Basileæ, per Ludovicum Lucium, 1554. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Ioh. Keppleri mathematici olim imperatorii Somnivm, seu opvs posthvmvm...

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latin

early works to 1800

rare book and special collections division

rare book selections

nasa

national library of poland

hubble space telescope

astronomy, latin