1666 Celestial Motions Ephemerides Johannes Hecker ASTROLOGY ASTRONOMY ANTIQUE

Ioannis Heckeri  (Johann Hecker)

Motuum Caelestium Ephemerides

(Ephemerides of Celestial Motions by Johannes Hecker)

 Paris (Parisiis) at the expense of Symeon Piget on Rue Saint-Jacques (Viâ Jacobæâ) under the sign of Prudence (sub signo Prudentiæ), dated M. DC. LXVI (1666)


 Astronomical ephemerides (tables tracking the positions of celestial bodies) covering the years 1666 to 1680

Built upon the corrected observations of Tycho Brahe, the physical hypotheses of Johannes Kepler, and the Rudolphine Tables (Tabulae Rudolphinae)


Title page with printer's device features an emblem of Prudence with the Latin motto "Vincit Prudentia Vires" ("Prudence conquers strength").

Later cloth binding with gilt title to the front cover

Title page with some spots, frayed, next leaf with damage to the lower margin, good otherwise
 

 Size 7.5 by10"

Text in Latin
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