1502 ASTROLOGY POST-INCUNABUL ILLUSTRATED antique Astrolabium Planum by J.ENGEL

Johannes Engel [aka Angelus] (Johann Engel) (1453-1512)

Astrolabium Planum in Tabulis Asce[n]dens.

Venice: Antonium de Giunta, 1502.

Astrological treatise by Johannes Angelus, which provides tables for calculating ascendant signs and degrees, and includes astrological equations for the houses and other helpful information.
The title translates to "Flat Astrolabe in Ascending Tables" and the full title describes its content, such as calculating the duration of pregnancy.
The work was influential and has been republished multiple times. 

 illustrated with woodcuts and astrological charts;
several period inscriptions to title, including ownership notes from 1600 and 1716;
bound in 17th century full parchment over boards densely sprinkled in brown, gilt tooled spine with raised bands and title label;

some stains to first few leaves; otherwise very good

Size: 7 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.

Ex libris Professor, Astronomer, Historian & Bibliophile Owen Gingerich.

Text in Latin
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Johannes Engel (1453 – 1512), also known as Johannes Angelus, was a doctor, astronomer and astrologer from Aichach, near Augsburg, which at that time was a Free Imperial City within the Holy Roman Empire.
He practiced medicine in Vienna, and published numerous almanachs, planetary tables and calendars.

Engels was born at Aichach, near Augsburg in Bavaria.
He registered at the University of Ingolstadt in the summer of 1472, the year of its foundation, and graduated as a Master of Arts in 1474; in 1476 he gave lectures on Aristotle at the university.
From 1489 to 1491 Engel worked as a proof-reader or editor for the noted printer Erhard Ratdolt of Augsburg, who had previously worked in Venice and had published many works on astronomy.
? Between 1492 and 1497 Engels studied medicine at the University of Ingolstadt.
He later practiced medicine in Vienna, where on 29 September 1512 he died.
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