1553 ASTRONOMY Elucidatio Fabricae Ususque Astrolabii by J. STOEFFLER antique

Johannes Stoeffler (1452-1531)

Elucidatio Fabricae Ususque Astrolabii.

Paris: Apud Gulielmum Cavellat; 1553

 first Cavellat edition & first edition printed in Paris;

woodcut printer's device to title page;

illustrated throughout with elegant text diagrams;

printed in an italic type;

with 2 folding typographical tables bound in the text and two folding woodcut diagrams bound at the end;

ex libris Johannes Aurifaber with his signature inside the front board and his initials in the top panel 


Original hand tooled pigskin binding over wooden boards, dated 1562

With clasps and catches intact;

very nicely preserved

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

 Size: 4 3/4 by 7 1/4 inches

Text in Latin
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Johannes Stoffler (also Stofler, Stoffler, Stoeffler; 1452 –1531) was a German mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments and professor at the University of Tubingen.
Stoffler was born on 10 December 1452 in Justingen (now part of Schelklingen) on the Swabian Alb.
Having received his basic education at the Blaubeuren monastery school, he registered at the newly founded University of Ingolstadt on 21 April 1472, where he was consequently promoted Baccalaureus in September 1473 and Magister in January 1476. After finishing his studies he obtained the parish of Justingen where he, besides his clerical obligations, concerned himself with astronomy, astrology and the making of astronomical instruments, clocks and celestial globes. He conducted a lively correspondence with leading humanists - for example, Johannes Reuchlin, for whom he made an equatorium and wrote horoscopes.

In 1499, Stoffler predicted that a deluge would cover the world on 20 February 1524.
In 1507, at the instigation of Duke Ulrich I, he received the newly established chair of mathematics and astronomy at the University of Tubingen, where he excelled in rich teaching and publication activities and finally was elected rector in 1522.
By the time of his appointment, he already enjoyed a virtual monopoly in ephemeris-making in collaboration with Jacob Pflaum, continuing the calculations of Regiomontanus through 1531, and then through 1551, the latter being published posthumously in 1531.

His treatise on the construction and the use of the astrolabe, entitled Elucidatio fabricae ususque astrolabii, was published in several editions and served astronomers and surveyors for a long time as a standard work.

Philipp Melanchthon and Sebastian Munster rank among his most famous students. Stoffler died of the plague in Blaubeuren on 16 February 1531 after an epidemic forced the division and relocation of his university to the surrounding countryside in 1530.
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