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369G Origanus, David. (1528-1628) Novae motuum coelestium ephemerides Brandenburgicae, annorum LX :incipientes ab anno 1595, & desinentes in annum 1655, calculo duplici luminarium, Tychonico & Copernicaeo, reliquorum planetarum posteriore elaboratae, & variis diversarum nationum calendarijs accomodatae : cum introductione hac pleniore, in qua chronologica, astronomica & astrologica ex fundamentis ipsis tractantur

Francofurti cis Viadrum : Typis Ioannem Eichorni : Apud Davidem Reichardum bibliopolam Stetinensem,1609                             $5,500

Large Quarto, . Engraved title page showing Ptolemy and Pliny. Numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams. A-Z6,Aa-Zz6,Aaa-Vvv6. This copy is in its original full calf binding (English or Scottish?), It lacks the  clasps and catches. The text is Complete and in overall good condition. Approximately first ten leaves with tears and/or loss of paper at the margin, some browning, three leaves trimmed with some loss of information (possibly printer error), Signatures Oo and Pp were missed on most of the support cords in the original sewing. Provenance: University of Aberdeen Library, Ex Libris on the inside front board stamped “cancelled”.

Origanus developed a geo-heliocentric model of the Solar System, which emphasized the Earth’s axial rotation. He attempted to

justify his support for the motion of the Earth with passages from the Bible. He believed that magnetism explained the Earth’s rotation and that the tides were a consequence of it. Origanus also thought the universe to be nearly infinite. There are only three copies in

NUC. – Revision of the first published work in 1599, which was in 1603  placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. This Edition includes Tycho Brahe’s tables for sun and moon used here for the first time. But the crucial difference between Tycho’s 1587 geo-heliocentric model and those of other geo-heliocentric astronomers, such as Paul Wittich, Reimarus Ursus, Helisaeus Roeslin and David Origanus, was that the orbits of Mars and the Sun intersected. Further Origanus in contrast to Tycho Brahe,   was convinced that the Earth rotates.  David Origanus (1558-1628) was professor of mathematics at Frankfurt. Noted chiefly as a compiler of ephemerides and almanacs, he authored the Astrologia Naturalis, published posthumously at Marseilles in 1645, and wrote on the comet of 1618. First published in 1599, the Ephemerides Novae (Here 1609) were issued at the time when those of Stadius (ca 1527–17 to 1579) had begun to show great error.   “Computed with the greatest diligence from the hypotheses of Copernicus and the Prutenic canons,” (Thorndike, VI, p.61) they were accommodated to the horizon of Frankfurt on the Oder for use with either calendar. In the present work the Prutenic canons of the first edition have been replaced with the newly calculated tables of Tycho Brahe.

Thorndike VI,p61; Zinner, E. Geschichte und Bib. der astronomischen Lit. (1964 ed.),; 4247; Houzeau & Lancaster. Astronomie (1964 ed.),; 14952; Lalande. Bib. astronomique,; p. 150; Nicolaus Copernicus Gesamtausgabe: Biographia Copernicana Band IX: p.155 #115 : Harald Siebert ,Die grosse kosmologische Kontroverse: Rekonstruktionsversuche anhand des. Page 112 See also : DAVID ORIGANUS’S PLANETARY SYSTEM (1599 AND 1609) Daniel Omodeo, Pietro November 2011 Journal for the History of Astronomy;Nov2011, Vol. 42 Issue 4, p439 {this article discusses the astronomical and cosmological theories of German astronomer David Tost, or Origanus. Particular emphasis is given to Tost’s understanding of the planetary system and the Earth’s motion. The astronomer developed a geo-heliocentric model of the Solar System, which emphasized the Earth’s axial rotation. He attempted to justify his support for the motion of the Earth with passages from the Bible. He believed that magnetism explained the Earth’s rotation and that the tides were a consequence of it. Tost also thought the universe to be nearly infinite.}

ephēmeris

In astronomy and celestial navigation, an ephemeris (plural: ephemerides; from the Greek word ἐφημερίς ephēmeris “diary”, “journal”) gives the positions of astronomical objects in the sky at a given time or times. Historically, positions were given as printed tables of values, given at regular intervals of date and time. Modern ephemerides are often computed electronically from mathematical models of the motion of astronomical objects and the earth. Even though the calculation of these tables was one of the first applications of mechanical computers, printed ephemerides are still produced, as they are useful when computational devices are not available.

The astronomical position calculated from an ephemeris is given in the spherical polar coordinate system of right ascension anddeclination. Some of the astronomical phenomena of interest to astronomers are eclipses, apparent retrograde motion/planetary stations, planetary ingresses, sidereal time, positions for the mean and true nodes of the moon, the phases of the Moon, and the position(s) of Chiron and other minor celestial bodies.

Ephemerides are used in celestial navigation, astronomy and astrology.