![Sphaera mundi, seu cosmographia demonstrativa, ac facili methodo tradita: in qua totius mundi fabrica, una cum novis, Tychonis, Kepleri, Galilaei, aliorumq[ue] astronomorum adinventis continetur. Accessere I. Brevis introductio ad geographiam. II. Apparatus ad mathematicarum studium. III. Echometria, idest geometrica tractatio de echo. IV. Novum instrumentum ad horologia describenda. opus posthumum.Modena, Andrea & Girolamo Cassiani, 1653. With: (2) BIANCANI, Giuseppe. Constructio instrumenti ad horologia solaria describenda peropportuni. ... Opus posthumum. Modena, Andrea Cassiani, 1654. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. Ad 1: with publisher's woodcut device, 1 large folding diagram, 1 woodcut diagram, numerous woodcut diagrams and other illustrations in text, woodcut head- and tailpieces and decorated initials, letterpress tables. Ad 2: with a woodcut astronomical dial on the title page, 18 numbered engraved figures on both sides of 3 leaves, decorated woodcut initials and a large folding letterpress table. Contemporary sheepskin parchment, sewn on 5 cords, manuscript spine title. Rebacked.](https://images.antiqbook.com/books/ashe16/1698395036/sphaera-mundi-1-small.avif)
Sphaera mundi, seu cosmographia demonstrativa, ac facili methodo tradita: in qua totius mundi fabrica, una cum novis, Tychonis, Kepleri, Galilaei, aliorumq[ue] astronomorum adinventis continetur. Accessere I. Brevis introductio ad geographiam. II. Apparatus ad mathematicarum studium. III. Echometria, idest geometrica tractatio de echo. IV. Novum instrumentum ad horologia describenda. opus posthumum.Modena, Andrea & Girolamo Cassiani, 1653. With: (2) BIANCANI, Giuseppe. Constructio instrumenti ad horologia solaria describenda peropportuni. ... Opus posthumum. Modena, Andrea Cassiani, 1654. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. Ad 1: with publisher's woodcut device, 1 large folding diagram, 1 woodcut diagram, numerous woodcut diagrams and other illustrations in text, woodcut head- and tailpieces and decorated initials, letterpress tables. Ad 2: with a woodcut astronomical dial on the title page, 18 numbered engraved figures on both sides of 3 leaves, decorated woodcut initials and a large folding letterpress table. Contemporary sheepskin parchment, sewn on 5 cords, manuscript spine title. Rebacked.
BIANCANI, Giuseppe. · 1566 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
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[6], 232; 24, [5] pp.The two most important works of the famous Jesuit mathematician Giuseppe Biancani (1566-1624). Here the third edition of his Sphaera mundi, with the second edition of his Constructio instrumenti. The former presents a summary of the recent progress in astr...
