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A Bound / Flex Cover / REPRINT: Colonia Apud Maternum Cholinum 1581 / Modern Reprint No reprint Date Limited edition, no. 214 of 250 copies. 200 pages. Paper / Soft cover reprint edition in very good condition, slight wear to edges. Glossy card covers with cloth spine. Archival reprint / replica of original edition. Privately published. Overall good copy of this scarce title. Excellent read. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand. Or would make a great gift for the fan / reader in your life. Full title page reads: Sphaera Ioannis de Sacro Bosco Emendata : Eliae Veneti Santonis Scholia in Eandem Sphaeram Ab Ipso Authore Restituta : Quibus Nune Accessere Scholia Heronis : Adiunximus Huic Libro Compendium in Spharam Per Pierium Valerianum Bellunensem et Petri Nonil Salaciensis Demonstrationem Corum Quae in Extremo Capite declimatibus Sacroboscius Scribit de Inaequaliclimatum Latitudine Eodem Vineto Interprete.. Soft Cover / Cloth Binding. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Illus with b/w…
Read More [Sphaera mundi, cum commento Wenceslai Fabri de Budweiss]. Opusculum Johannis de sacro busto spericu[m] cum notabili commento atq[ue] figuris textum declarantibus utilissimis by SACROBOSCO, Johannes de - 1499
by SACROBOSCO, Johannes de
[Sphaera mundi, cum commento Wenceslai Fabri de Budweiss]. Opusculum Johannis de sacro busto spericu[m] cum notabili commento atq[ue] figuris textum declarantibus utilissimis
by SACROBOSCO, Johannes de
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- Hardcover
Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1499. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (210 x 140 mm). 49 leaves (of 50, lacking I6, blank only). 39 lines, types: 160 (title and headings), 81, (text, leaded), 73 (commentary). Capital spaces with capitals, initial strokes and underlines supplied in red. Woodcut printer's device at end hand-colored in red and green, 28 woodcuts in-text, a few hand-colored in outline in red, one full-page. Signatures: A-C6 D4 E-G6 H4 I6 (-I6). Bound in later stiff vellum, later endpapers (some minor soiling of boards). Text little browned thoroughout, few leaves a bit stronger, occasional brown spotting, dust- and finger-soiling. Copiously annotated in at least three different hands of red-brown and black ink, diagram drawings including a large one depicting the geocentric planetary system on title-page; some annotations slightly shaved at fore-margin. Provenance: Jois Henrici (?)Gisimberti (inscription on title dated 1640); Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat Botanicum.
A close reprint of Landsberg's edition of ca 1497, the first to be published with commentary by Wenzel Faber von Budweis (1455-1518), an astronomer, astrologer and theologian from Bohemia. Sacrobosco's Sphaera Mundi, in which he sets out the basic principles of spherical astronomy, was widely commented upon, corrected and republished across Europe. First written in about 1220, the Sphaera Mundi is "a small work based on Ptolemy and his Arabic commentators antedating the De sphaera of Grosseteste. It was quite generally adopted as the fundamental astronomy text, for often it was so clear that it needed little or no explanation. It was first used at the University of Paris and from the middle of the thirteenth century it was taught in all the schools of Europe. In the sixteenth century it gained the attention of mathematicians, including Clavius. As late as the seventeenth century it was used as a basic astronomy text" (DSB XII, p. 61).
RARE: according to online records, only one copy of this edition has sold at auction in the last 50 years (Ketterer Hamburg, 2004, €16,100); ISTC traces only 12 copies at institutions worldwide. BMC III 655; Goff J420; GW M14592; HC 14123; not in BSB-Ink; OCoLC: 953259513. - Visit our website to see more images!
A close reprint of Landsberg's edition of ca 1497, the first to be published with commentary by Wenzel Faber von Budweis (1455-1518), an astronomer, astrologer and theologian from Bohemia. Sacrobosco's Sphaera Mundi, in which he sets out the basic principles of spherical astronomy, was widely commented upon, corrected and republished across Europe. First written in about 1220, the Sphaera Mundi is "a small work based on Ptolemy and his Arabic commentators antedating the De sphaera of Grosseteste. It was quite generally adopted as the fundamental astronomy text, for often it was so clear that it needed little or no explanation. It was first used at the University of Paris and from the middle of the thirteenth century it was taught in all the schools of Europe. In the sixteenth century it gained the attention of mathematicians, including Clavius. As late as the seventeenth century it was used as a basic astronomy text" (DSB XII, p. 61).
RARE: according to online records, only one copy of this edition has sold at auction in the last 50 years (Ketterer Hamburg, 2004, €16,100); ISTC traces only 12 copies at institutions worldwide. BMC III 655; Goff J420; GW M14592; HC 14123; not in BSB-Ink; OCoLC: 953259513. - Visit our website to see more images!
- Bookseller Independent bookstores (DE)
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available 1
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Wolfgang Stöckel
- Place of Publication Leipzig
- Date Published 1499
- Keywords Astronomy, celestial spheres, ptolemy