![COSMOLOGY. ‘Tractatus de coelo et mundo. Disputatio p[rim]a de mundo generatim inspecto’, manuscript treatise, [Italy, mid-18th century]. Mathematical tract on 19 pages (misbound), cosmological treatise on 129 pages with 32 full-page diagrams, 13 pages continuation of the same on 13 pages with 53 full-page diagrams, plus blanks. In Latin, in total c.246 pages, 203 x 138mm, of which 85 full-page diagrams (repairs to final three diagrams). Modern half-vellum.](https://staging.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14298_0004_000(cosmology_tractatus_de_coelo_et_mundo_disputatio_prima_de_mundo_genera040604).jpg?w=1)
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COSMOLOGY. ‘Tractatus de coelo et mundo. Disputatio p[rim]a de mundo generatim inspecto’, manuscript treatise, [Italy, mid-18th century]. Mathematical tract on 19 pages (misbound), cosmological treatise on 129 pages with 32 full-page diagrams, 13 pages continuation of the same on 13 pages with 53 full-page diagrams, plus blanks. In Latin, in total c.246 pages, 203 x 138mm, of which 85 full-page diagrams (repairs to final three diagrams). Modern half-vellum.
A primer on cosmography, with tables of star charts, diagrams including an armillary sphere, several constellations, the Ptolemaic, Tychonic and Copernican systems, a world map, and volvelles for solar altitudes for 11 given latitudes.
A primer on cosmography, with tables of star charts, diagrams including an armillary sphere, several constellations, the Ptolemaic, Tychonic and Copernican systems, a world map, and volvelles for solar altitudes for 11 given latitudes.
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