Planisphaeriorum universalium theorica

by Guido Ubaldo Monte, Marchese del

$12,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition · Signed

Pesaro: Girolamo Concordia, 1579. First edition, very rare, the Jones-Macclesfield copy, signed by William Jones, of the first modern theoretical treatise on the planisphere, an instrument for representing the celestial sphere on a plane surface. Guidobaldo was one of the most prominent figures in the renaissance of the mathematical sciences, and is famous for his Mechanicorum liber 1577 ,

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