THEORICÆ NOVÆ PLANETARVM with two working Volvelles. 1580

Georg Peuerbach’s Theoricæ novæ planetarum, Wittenberg, 1580, expanded by Erasmus Reinhold and edited by Kaspar Peucer. An important Renaissance astronomy textbook with two reconstructed working volvelles for demonstrating lunar illumination and planetary motion. Contemporary limp parchment, from the libraries of Hopetoun House and astronomer and historian Owen Gingerich.