Harmonicon coeleste : or, The cœlestiall harmony of the visible world. Conteining, an absolute and entire piece of astronomie. Wherein is succinctly handled the trigonometricall part, generally propounded, and particularly applyed in all questions tending to the diurnall motion. Especially respecting, and truly subservient to the main doctrine of the second motions of the luminaries and the other planets : together with their affections as eclipses &c. Grounded upon the most rationall hypothesis yet constituted, and compared with the best observations that are extant, especially those of Tycho Brahe, and other more modern observators. Fitted to the meridian of the most famous and ancient metropolis London, and principally intended for our English nation, and commended as usefull to all scholers, astronomers, astrologers, divines, physitians, Historiographers, polititians, and poets
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Type of record: Book
Title: Harmonicon coeleste : or, The cœlestiall harmony of the visible world. Conteining, an absolute and entire piece of astronomie. Wherein is succinctly handled the trigonometricall part, generally propounded, and particularly applyed in all questions tending to the diurnall motion. Especially respecting, and truly subservient to the main doctrine of the second motions of the luminaries and the other planets : together with their affections as eclipses &c. Grounded upon the most rationall hypothesis yet constituted, and compared with the best observations that are extant, especially those of Tycho Brahe, and other more modern observators. Fitted to the meridian of the most famous and ancient metropolis London, and principally intended for our English nation, and commended as usefull to all scholers, astronomers, astrologers, divines, physitians, Historiographers, polititians, and poets
Classmark: BC Sc q/WIN
Creator(s): Wing, Vincent (1619-1668)
Additional creator(s): Briggs, Henry (1561-1630) (Other)
Related people: Briggs, Henry
Publisher: Printed by Robert Leybourn, for the Company of Stationers
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1651
Language: English
Size and medium: [12] p. l., 309 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/286685
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002317149705181
Description
Includes "Chiliades decem logarithmorum... First calculated by ... Henry Briggs ... and their use now much amplified. By Vincent Wing".
The second, third, and fourth books of "Harmonicon coeleste," "Tables of the middle motions and æquations of Sol, Luna, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and Mercury," "Canon triangulorum logarithmicus," and "Chiliades decem logarithmorum" each have special t.-p. included in pagination.
Title within ornamental border.
Head-pieces; initials.
Title pages of part 2-3 have astronomical diagrams as title vignettes; pt. 4 has a printing ornament. "Tables" and "Canon" have astronomical diagram; "Chiliades" has a printer's device.
A3signed Aa3; C2 signed B2. In O, stubs conjugate respectively with O4 and O1 are present.
Indexed in: Wing W2993.
Additional description
Ss3, last leaf of text, with FINIS at foot of recto and blank verso, is followed by a stub (=Ss4, blank?). From the library of C.E. Kenney, with his shelf label
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