Novae coelestium orbium theoricæ congruentes cum observationibus N. Copernici

by Giovanni Antonio Magini

$18,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Venice: Damiano Zenaro, 1589. First edition of Magini’s principal astronomical work, the most articulate geocentric answer to Copernicus produced in Italy at the close of the sixteenth century. Published on the eve of his appointment to the Bologna chair of mathematics, in preference to the young Galileo, it offered what many readers most wanted: the unprecedented accuracy of Copernican astronomy without the

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