Motus Planetarum Superiorum qui secundum Tychonis Hypothesin singulis suis periodis per lineas spirales contingunt, exempli loco in primo Seculi XVIII triente geometrice exhibiti. by Doppelmayr, Johann Gabriel - ohne Jahr (1742)

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Georg Olms Verlag, 1972. Book measures 27.5x20.cm. viii,314,17],pp, 16 plates, some folding. Bound in original publishers grey cloth. Cloth lightly rubbed, faded on spine. Binding in good clean firm condition. Internally, pages clean throughout. A good solid clean copy. . Cloth. Very Good. Quarto.

(London: Thames & Hudson, 2022).. First edition, folio, 255, (1) pp. Numerous illustrations. Publisher's boards, a fine copy.

Hildesheim, Olms 1972.. Oln. Nd. d. Ausgabe Nürnberg 1730. Documenta Technica.

Nuremberg,, c. 1730. Copper engraving, 49.5 x 59 cms, original hand-colour, blank verso. Doppelmayr became professor of mathematics at the Aegidien-Gymnasium in Nuremberg in 1704, and enjoyed a close working relationship with the founder of the Homann firm, Johann Baptist Homann. Astronomical plates prepared by Doppelmayr appeared in early editions of Homann’s general atlases before being collected together and published as the ‘Atlas Coelestis’ by the Homann Heirs in 1742. As part of this, Doppelmayr summarised the development of astronomy as a discipline. This chart depicts the orbits of the major planets according to Copernicus and Kepler, who shared heliocentric theories of the solar system, hypothesising circular and elliptical orbits respectively. Notes explain Kepler's theories, as well as those of Ismael Bullialdus (author of Astronomia Philolaica), those of the English mathematician and astronomer Seth Ward, and of Nikolaus Mercator. Map