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Extracts from Ptolemy's Almagest and other works, and from the Greek commentators on the Almagest 9 (v.1)

Ptolemy; Theon of Alexandria; Porphyry (234-305); Rhabdas, Nicolaus Artabasdos

[14--? ]

Volume 1 contains extracts from Ptolemy Mathematike Syntaxis (the Almagest), together with two other short works on astronomy by Ptolemy (c. 2 AD), and extracts from the commentary on the Mathematike ...

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[Flores astrologiae]

Abū Maʻshar (886); Johannes, Hispalensis; Ratdolt, Erhard (1447?-1528); Capé, Charles-François (1806-1867); Schedel, Hartmann (1440-1514); Redgrave, G R (1844-1941); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

Xiiij. Kal[endas] Dece[m]bris.M.cccc.lxxxviij. [18 November 1488]

Signatures: a-b⁸ c⁴. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on c3v reads:Opus floru[m] Albumasaris explicit feliciter Erhardi Ratdolt Augustensis viri solertis eximia industria : & mira imprimendi ar...

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Iulii Firmici Astronomicorum libri octo integri, & emendati, ex Scythicis oris ad nos nuper allati : Marci Manilii Astronomicorum libri quinque. Arati Phænomena Germanico Cæsare interprete cum commentariis & imaginibus. Arati eiusdem Phænomenon fragmentum Marco. T.C. interprete. Arati eiusdem Phænomena Ruffo Festo Auienio paraphraste. Arati eiusdem Phænomena Græce[.] Theonis commentaria copiosissima in Arati Phænomena Græce. Procli Diadochi Sphæra Græce[.] Procli eiusdem Sphæra, Thoma Linacro Britanno interprete

Germanicus Caesar (15 B.C.-19 A.D); Theon of Alexandria; Aratus Solensis; Cicero, Marcus Tullius; Proclus (410-485); Linacre, Thomas (1460-1524); Negro, Pescennio Francesco (1452-); Rufus, Sextus; Manilius, Marcus; Firmicus Maternus, Julius; Manuzio, Aldo (1515); Wedelicki, Piotr (1543); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

Mense octob[ris]. M. ID. [October 1499]

Signatures: [*]⁶ a-g¹⁰ h¹² aa-hh¹⁰ ii-kk⁸ A-D¹⁰ E¹² F⁶ G-M¹⁰ N⁶ ²N¹⁰ O-S¹⁰ T⁸. Imprint from the second colophon on T8r. The first colophon on kk8r reads: Venetiis ...

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The elements of physical and geometrical astronomy. By David Gregory,... Done into English, with additions and corrections (v.1)

Gregory, David (1659-1708); Halley, Edmond (1656-1742); Stone, Edmund (1768)

1726

Volume 1 only is described as of the second edition, although according to Houzeau and Lancaster (Bibliographie générale de l'astronomie) no. 9240 the two-volume first edition was published in 1715....

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The elements of physical and geometrical astronomy. By David Gregory,... Done into English, with additions and corrections (v.2)

Gregory, David (1659-1708); Halley, Edmond (1656-1742); Stone, Edmund (1768)

1726

Volume 1 only is described as of the second edition, although according to Houzeau and Lancaster (Bibliographie générale de l'astronomie) no. 9240 the two-volume first edition was published in 1715....

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Jeremiæ Horroccii, Liverpoliensis Angli, ex Palatinatu Lancastriæ, Opera posthuma : viz. Astronomia Kepleriana, defensa & promota. Excerpta ex epistolis ad Crabtræum suum. Observationum cœlestium catalogus. Lunæ theoria nova. Accedunt Guilielmi Crabtræi... Observationes cœlestes. In calce adjiciuntur Johannis Flamstedii ... De temporis æquatione diatriba. Numeri ad lunæ theoriam Horroccianam

Horrocks, Jeremiah (1617?-1641); Crabtree, William (1610-1644); Flamsteed, John (1646-1719); Wallis, John (1616-1703)

1673

First edition. Edited by John Wallis. Each of the works included, except the first, has its own title page, dated '1672' (but '1673' in the last 2 works); the title pages of the 'Excerpta ex epist...

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Introductio ad veram astronomiam, seu, Lectiones astronomicae : habitae in Schola Astronomica Academiae Oxoniensis

Keill, John (1671-1721)

an. Dom. 1718

Signatures: a⁴ b⁸ A-2H⁸. Errata on p. [496]. Savilian lectures.

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Systema cosmicum

Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642); Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630); Bernegger, Matthias (1582-1640); Foscarini, Paolo Antonio (1580-1616)

1663

Title on added engraved t.p.: Dialogus de systemate mundi. "Benevole lector" (translator's preface) signed: Matthias Berneggerus. "Perioche ex introductione in Martem Johannis Kepleri": p. 650-658...

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