Sfera di Gio. Sacro Bosco tradotta, e dichiarata da don Francesco Pifferi Sansavino monaco Camaldolese e matematico nello studio di Siena

by Francesco Pifferi

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First edition

Siena: Silvestro Marchetti, 1604. First edition of Francesco Pifferi’s Italian translation and commentary on Sacrobosco’s Sfera, containing the earliest printed appearance of Tycho Brahe’s catalogue of 1004 stars. On pages 121–178 Pifferi inserted a complete tabulation of the fixed stars, ordered by the forty-eight Ptolemaic constellations, with longitude, latitude, magnitude, and astrological

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