In Sphaeram Ioannis de Sacro Bosco, Commentarius. Nunc quarto ab ipso Auctore recognitus, & plerisque in locis locupletatus

by Christophorus Clavius

$1,850 · Offered by Martayan Lan

Rare edition of this standard Jesuit textbook on astronomy, “the first to accuse Copernicus not only of having presented a physically absurd doctrine but also of having contradicted numerous scriptural passages” (DSB), written by Christoph Clavius, the “Euclid of the sixteenth century”. Using John de Sacro Bosco’s account of the..... More

• Binding: Leather

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