Liber Astronomiae Antiquus
Dele Stelle Fisse

Dele Stelle Fisse

AuthorAlessandro Piccolomini
Year1548
Book languageLatin
Condition Fine
2.500 €

Description

Second edition, first published in 1540. A "remarkable exposition of Ptolemaic-Aristotelian geocentric cosmography, its appendix, 'De le stelle fisse', represents THE FIRST PRINTED STAR ATLAS, which contains maps of the stars instead of simple constellation images, and introduces the practice of identifying stars by letter, a method later adopted and expanded by Bayer"