1581 ASTRONOMY Theoricae Novae Planetarum Georg PEURBACH & SACROBOSCO antique

Georg von Peurbach (1423-1461)

Theoricae Novae Planetarum.

Cologne: Apud Haeredes Arnoldi Birckmanni; 1581

IHS emblem woodcut device to title;
illustrated throughout with text woodcut diagrams and one folding typographical table.

[Bound with]

Sacrobosco's Sphaera, Cologne:

Apud Maternum Cholinum; 1581

 illustrated with woodcuts, none of the illustrations meant to have moving parts have been constructed;

dense marginal notes on back flyleaf and occasionally in the text,

many early inscriptions to front flyleaves and title (some obscured);

bound in full original limp vellum, lacking ties

With ex-libris of Professor, Astronomer, Historian & Bibliophile Owen Gingerich.


 Size: 4 by 6 1/4 inches

Text in Latin
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Georg von Peuerbach (also Purbach, Peurbach; Latin: Purbachius; 1423 – 1461) was an Austrian astronomer, poet, mathematician and instrument maker, best known for his streamlined presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Theoricae Novae Planetarum.
Peuerbach was instrumental in making astronomy, mathematics and literature simple and accessible for Europeans during the Renaissance and beyond.
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