天文圖解 Tenmon zukai Illustrated Explanation of Astronomy

by Jōhan 井口常範 Iguchil, Tsunenori

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First edition

Osaka: Itamiya Mohe / Itamiya Tarōuemon, in association with allied Osaka–Kyoto booksellers , Genroku 2 1689 . / First edition, a fine copy, of the first astronomical book published in Japan, issued at the moment of the Jōkyō calendar reform. Iguchi Jōhan, a Kyoto physician and astronomer, combined Chinese and Buddhist cosmology with the geometrical astronomy transmitted by Jesuit works to produce the first Japanese synthesis of

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