Alae seu scalae mathematicae coelorum, quibus visibilium remotissima coelorum theatra conscendi, & planetarum omnium itinera novis & inauditis methodis explorari …

by Thomas Digges

$48,500 · Offered by Martayan Lan

Rare first edition of Thomas Digges’s Alae seu scalae (1573), the most important astronomical work published in 16th-century England and a landmark in the Copernican Revolution. Writing shortly after the surprising appearance of the famous ‘new star’ of 1572 (later known as ‘Tycho’s supernova’), Digges sets out here to examine..... More

• Binding: Leather

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