Canones Super Novum Instrumentum Luminarium Docentes Quo Pacto Per Illud Inveniantur Solis

by Sebastian Munster

$18,500 · Offered by Martayan Lan

Very rare first Latin edition of one of Sebastian Münster’s (1488-1552) earliest astronomical works, the Canones super Novum Instrumentum Luminarium, a treatise on the use of an elaborate device known as the Instrumentum Novum (‘New Instrument’). The volume instructs users how to calculate such astronomical information as the appearance of..... More

• Binding: Leather

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