Gaurico, Luca (1476-1558). Annotated by Paul Haintzel (1527–1581 Tractatus astrologiae judiciariae de nativitatibus virorum & mulierum, compositus per D. Lucam Gauricum Neapolitanum, ex Ptolemaeo & alijs autoribus dignissimis, cum multis aphorismis expertis & comprobatis ab eodem. Addito in fine libello Antonii... Continue Reading →
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.
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