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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.
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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REVISING THE ALFONSINE TABLES
SECOND COPY IN AMERICA, NONE IN ANY AMERICAN INSTITUTION
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BIANCHINI, Giovanni. Tabulae de Motibus Planetarum. Ferrara, c. 1475.
Rare manuscript of one of the most sophisticated and widely disseminated 15th-century attempts to correct the Alfonsine Tables, by Giovanni Bianchini (d. 1469), an astronomer and business administrator attached to the Ferrara court of the d'Este, considered by Regiomontanus the greatest astronomer of his time.
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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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