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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 ...
[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...
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 ...
M. Tullius Cicero Of the nature of the gods; in three books. With critical, philosophical, and explanatory notes. To which is added, An enquiry into the astronomy and anatomy of the antients
Cicero, Marcus Tullius; Francklin, Thomas (1721-1784)
1741
Translated, and with notes, by Thomas Francklin.
Extraordinary newes from Constantinople, November the 27, 1641 : being a letter sent from thence to the Lord Dominicco, Mugliano, Florantino dated the second of September 1641 : conteyning a most certaine and true relation of the late and strange visions, with the aspects of two commetts or blazing starres with forked tayles. Appearing to the great Turke, and perpendicularly hanging over his Seraglio in Constantinople as also his incredible dreames, together with their interpretation by the wisest of his divines, astrologers and magicians
W. C (fl.1641)
1641
Pp.2-6 of the main text are numbered 2-5, 9.
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....
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....
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...
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.
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...
Astronomy of the satellites of the Earth, Jupiter and Saturn : grounded upon Sir Isaac Newton's theory of the Earth's satellite... Also new tables of the motions of the satellites of Jupiter and Saturn ... by which their places and position ... may be exactly determined at any given time. Adapted to the meridian of London. To which is added a problem to find the latitude of the place by the altitude of the sun, moon, or star, upon any azimuth
Leadbetter, Charles (fl. 1728)
1729
Partially based on Newton's "Lunae theoria", first published in Gregory's "Astronomiae physicae et geometricae elementa".
Antonii le Grand Historia naturae, variis experimentis & ratiociniis elucidata : Secundum principia stabilita in institutione philosophiae edita ab eodem authore
Le Grand, Antoine (1699)
1673
First edition. Added engraved half-title-page [A1]. Includes index.