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Quadro navtico, o Caxa de Marineros
Gallucci, Giovanni Paol...
Quadro navtico, o Caxa ...
1606
11604.043
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[Gallucci, Giovanni Paolo, 1538-1621, Perez, Miguel, Munoz, Sebastian]
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Y del Tiempo Lib. I. Quadro navtico, o Caxa de Marineros. (to accompany) Theatro del Mvndo y de el Tiempo ... Por Sebastian Munoz, impressor de libros, Ano de 1606.
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11604.043
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Gallucci's Theatro del Mundo (Theater of the World and time), the first modern celestial atlas on cosmography, astronomy and astrology, a survey on terrestrial and celestial physics, by Giovanni Paolo Gallucio, translated from Latin into Castilian Spanish. Gallucci combined a coordinate system with a celestial system of projection for an accurate determination of the star and zodiacal positions, it represents paper versions of the astrolabe, an instrument used to calculate the position of the stars and celestial bodies before the invention of the sextant. Gallucci first published the book in Latin in 1588 as "Theatrum mundi et temporis" in Venice, it was translated into Spanish in 1606, 1611, 1614, 1616 and 1617, all of them printed in Granada, in the Printing press of Sebastian Munoz. This is 2nd. edition, Spanish version of his Theatrum Mundo in 369 pages, in 6 parts: Libro I-VI, published in 1606, includes text, title page with vignette decorated with coat of arms, Dedication to Francisco Gonzalez de Heredia, Erata of the five books, charts, tables, as well as depiction of the constellations and collection of mythologic figures. Books 1-4 of Theatro del Mundo represent rotating volvelles with moving parts depicting astronomical hemispheric diagrams, Sphere stars and symbols for different star intensities, the Solar System, the wind, calculators for tides and daytime at every longitude and latitude, tables of the radiations of the planets and order of the Zodiac signs. Book 5 presents 48 maps of the Ptolemaic constellations and the related mythological illustrations. Book 6 contains text and tables. The star positions were taken from Copernicus’s catalogue. Bound in brown leather embossed covers with title " Theatro de Mvndo" on spine in gilt. Giovanni Paulo Gallucci an Italian Physicist and Cosmograph of the mid-sixteenth century, born in Salo in 1593 and died in Venice in 1621. He was one of the most active partners of the Academy of Venice of which he was founder in 1593, he invented an instrument allowing him to observe celestial phenomena day and night. He published many works on astronomical and time-measurement equipment.
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