{"product_id":"1581-astrology-astronomy-ephemerides-johannes-stadius-antique-2-pigskin-vols","title":"1581 ASTROLOGY \u0026 ASTRONOMY Ephemerides Johannes Stadius ANTIQUE 2 PIGSKIN VOLS","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"\u003eJohannes Stadius (1527-1579)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEphemerides Anno 1554 usque ad Annum 1606.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCologne: Apud Haeredes Arnoldi Birckmanni, 1581.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne work bound as two quarto volumes; \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewoodcut printer's device to title; the two volumes bound in full uniform original alum-tawed German pigskin over wooden boards,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003elacking ties;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ea few old library stamps at beginning and end of each volume\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVery good condition, minor toning, some soiling to the pigskin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSize 6 by 7 3\/4  in.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eText in Latin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProvenance: \u003cbr\u003eProfessor, Astronomer, Historian \u0026amp; Bibliophile Owen Gingerich, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA\u003cbr\u003e=======================\u003cbr\u003eJohannes Stadius or Estadius (Dutch: Jan Van Ostaeyen; French: Jean Stade) ( 1527 – 1579), was a Flemish astronomer, astrologer, and mathematician. He was one of the important late 16th-century makers of ephemerides, which gave the positions of astronomical objects in the sky at a given time or times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring his stay in Brussels Stadius published his first work, the Ephemerides novae et auctae, first published by the publisher Arnold Birckmann of Cologne in 1554. An ephemeris (plural: ephemerides) (from the Greek word ephemeros, \"daily\") was, traditionally, a table providing the positions (given in a Cartesian coordinate system, or in right ascension and declination or, for astrologers, in longitude along the zodiacal ecliptic), of the Sun, the Moon, and the planets in the sky at a given moment in time; the astrological positions are usually given for either noon or midnight depending on the particular ephemeris that is used.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis work posited a link between mathematics and medicine and was influential on Tycho Brahe and Nostradamus. \u003cbr\u003eStadius had been encouraged to publish the Ephemerides by his old teacher Gemma Frisius. \u003cbr\u003eFrisius had in a letter written in 1555 urged Stadius not to be afraid of being accused of believing in a moving earth and a stationary sun (i.e. the theory of Copernicus) or of abandoning the medieval Alfonsine Tables in favor of his own observations. In this letter Frisius further wrote that the system devised by Copernicus gave a better understanding of planetary distances, as well as of certain features of retrograde motion. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"\u003e=========================\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e","brand":"Motka","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51746403254574,"sku":null,"price":2855.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0692\/8017\/0286\/files\/199218-001jpg.jpg?v=1764445345","url":"https:\/\/motka.store\/products\/1581-astrology-astronomy-ephemerides-johannes-stadius-antique-2-pigskin-vols","provider":"Motka","version":"1.0","type":"link"}