Ephemerides Bononienses Mediceorum syderum ex hypothesibus, et tabulis …

by Gian Domenico Cassini, Jean-Dominique

$28,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Bologna: Emilio Maria Manolessi and brothers, 1668. First edition of this very rare and important work on the motions of Jupiter’s satellites, a work which led to the discovery that light has a finite speed, and whose tables were widely used for determining terrestrial longitude. In fact, Cassini himself was the first to deduce, as a consequence of his observations of the ‘Medicean

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