Almagestum Seu Magnae Constructionis Mathematicae Opus Plane Divinum Latina Donatum Lingua Ab

by Claudius Ptolemy

$285,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition · Signed

Venice; Ingolstadt: Lucantonio Giunta ; Peter Apianus , 1528; 1533 . First edition of George of Trebizond’s Latin Almagest, signed on the title and worked through leaf by leaf by Georg Joachim Rheticus: the only disciple Copernicus ever accepted, the twenty-five-year-old whose arrival at Frombork in May 1539 drew De revolutionibus out of decades of hesitation, whose Narratio prima Gdańsk, 1540 gave

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