De usu astrolabi compendium, schematibus commodissimis illustratum

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Author: Johannes Martinus Población (c1486–1557) Year: 1546 Publisher: Jean Barbé for Jacques Gazeau Place: Paris Description: 65 pages with Illustrated throughout with woodcuts and woodcut initials. Small octavo (6 3/4" x 4 1/4") bound in 19th-century vellum with morocco gilt spine label. (Palau 156391; Gunther, Astrolabes, P. 570 591; USTC 149570.) Early edition first published in 1519. The only book printed by Jean Barbé who is commonly thought to have also illustrated the book. A famous treatise on the use of the astrolabe by a lecturer in the Collège Royale, first printed in Paris in 1519 by Henri Estienne, and reprinted there at least seven times (the last in 1557). RARE: According to online records, only one complete copy of this work to sell at auction to appear since 1964. Johannes Martinus Población was a prominent Spanish physician, mathematician, and astronomer from Valencia who achieved great fame in 16th-century European humanist circles. His most celebrated work is De usu astrolabi compendium ( A Compendium on the Use of the Astrolabe ), first published in Paris around 1519. The book served as a highly practical, best-selling 16th-century manual. The first part carefully describes the astronomy tool. The second part details its application in solving real-world problems regarding topography, geometry, seamanship, and geography. An astrolabe is an astronomical instrument dating to ancient times. It serves as a star chart and physical model of the visible half-do

• Binding: Hardcover

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