DOGLIONI, Giovanni Nicolò

by Giovanni Nicolò Doglioni

£2,250 · Offered by Sokol Books

Scarce copy of this important didactic almanac including the prediction of weather conditions, planetary influence and a perpetual calendar one of the earliest if not the earliest almanack according to the Gregorian Calendar unknown to Poggendorff ( Bibliotheca Chemico-Mathematica 1076). Giovanni Nicolò Doglioni (1548-1629) was a Venetian notary appointed to several public offices in the city, and the author of works on chronology, cosmography and the calculation of time. L anno contextualised for a broader audience the reform of the Julian calendar introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 a revision which led to major scholarly debates on gnomonica or the computation of the portions of the solar day. The first section of the work discusses the four elements that constitute the world, the subdivisions of the earth into continents, countries and provinces, the meteorological phenomena resulting from the mixture of the elements as well as a table tracing the movements of the planets. In the second section Doglioni explains the subdivisions of time according to conventional units. The fundamental unit the day can be natural (following the planetary course of the sun in relation to the earth as a whole) or artificial (according to the specific place in which the onlooker is situated). This distinction is used as the basis to explain the correct construction of sundials on buildings. There follows an examination of the subdivision of historical time the discipline of chronology so dear

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