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Author
[Klepešta, Josef, Lukeš, Ladislav, Alter, J.]
Full Title
(Text Page to) Map of the Moon (2).
List No
14299.009
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Descriptive text in 37-page booklet accompanying Map of the moon. Section titles: [Dimensions, rotation and orbit of the Moon] -- Solar and lunar eclipses -- Precession and nutation. With illustrations: Fig. 2: Solar and lunar eclipse -- Fig. 3: Path of the lunar shadow on the surface of the Earth -- Fig. 4: Orbit of the Earth around the Sun and precession of its axis -- Fig. 5: Orbit of the pole of the Universe among the stars. Booklet housed together with sheet showing two photographs of the moon, as well as two folded maps, within a four-flap enclosure. Unfolded to 29 x 41 cm; folded to 29 x 20 cm.
Author
[Delamarche, Charles Francois, Lattre, Jean]
Full Title
(Positions de la Sphere. A Paris, chez Delamarche, Geogr., ca. 1800)
List No
0421.001
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Nine engraved maps or illustrations on 1 sheet. Title from table of contents. Contents: Disque de la Lune -- L'Hemisphere de la Terre eclaire par le Soleil au solstice d'Ete -- L'Hemisphere de la Terre eclaire par le Soleil au solstice d'Hyver -- Disque du Soleil -- Eclipse de Soleil -- Horison droit -- Horison parallele -- Eclipse de Lune -- Horison oblique.
Author
[Gallucci, Giovanni Paolo, 1538-1621, Perez, Miguel, Munoz, Sebastian]
Full Title
Y del Tiempo Lib. III. Rueda para Hallar el Lugar de el Sol Y Luna en el Zodiaco, en toda ora, mes, y dia. (to accompany) Theatro del Mvndo y de el Tiempo ... Por Sebastian Munoz, impressor de libros, Ano de 1606.
List No
11604.060
Note
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.
Author
Bromme, Traugott
Full Title
3. Der Mond ... Entworfen von Tr. Bromme. Ausgefuhrt v. E. Winckelmann. Stuttgart. Verlag von Krais & Hoffman. (to accompany) Atlas zur Physik der Welt. (with second title page) Atlas zu Alex. v. Humboldt's Kosmos ... Bromme.
List No
1615.008
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Chart consists of the phases of the moon, movement of the earth around the sun, position of earth, venus and mercury, drawings of the planet system, etc. Includes explanatory text and tables.
Author
[Reynolds, James, Emslie, John]
Full Title
Eclipses. (with) The theory of the tides. London. Published by James Reynolds 174 Strand. (to accompany) Astronomical diagrams.
List No
3432.007
Note
Handcolred and engraved 2 diagrams on one plate. Showing eclipse of the Moon and eclipse of the Sun, and the Theory of Tides. Text at the bottom gives a fuller explanation of the theory of tides.
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