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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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Logarithms For Italian Astronomers
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CAVALIERI, Bonaventura. Trigonometria... Bologna, Vittorio Benacci, 1643.
First edition of this fundamental work of trigonometry and without doubt the best text on the subject published in Italy during this period.
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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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"Copernicus First Scientific Work'
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COPERNICUS, Nicolaus. De Lateribus et angulis Triangulorum, tum planorum rectilineorum tum Sphaericorum, libellus eruditissimus & utilissimus, cum ad plerasque Ptolemaei demonstrationes intelligendas, tam vero ad alia multa... Wittenberg, Johannes Lufft, 1542.
Rare first edition of Copernicus' first scientific work, containing the first appearance of any part of the text of De Revolutionibus as well as Rheticus first published trigonometric tables.
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The Largest 17th-Century Celestial Globe Gores
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CORONELLI / NOLIN, Jean Baptiste / DEUVEZ, Arnoldus. Orbis Coelestis Typus Opus a P. Coronelli Min. Convent. Serenissimaeque Reipub. Venetae Cosmographo Inchoatum Societatis. Gallicae Sumptibus absolutum Lutetiae Parisiorum... [Paris, n.p., 1693].
A complete set of 24 gores plus 2 calottes for the separately issued Nolin-Deuvez edition of Coronelli's 1-meter- (3-) in-diameter celestial globe, the largest printed celestial globe up to its time, larger and more accurate than the globes by Blaeu and Hondius which preceded it.
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