Telescopium: sive Ars perficiendi novum illud Galilaei visorium instrumentum ad sydera in tres partes divisa

by Girolamo Sirtori

$85,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Frankfurt: Paul Jacobi for Luca Jennis, 1618. / First edition, extremely rare, of “the first book about the telescope, its invention and use” Zinner . Written by the Milanese scholar Girolamo Sirtori in 1612, only four years after the telescope was invented, with a complete set of instructions and diagrams for building a refracting telescope, and the first detailed account of Galileo's instrument. The book contains Sirtori's first-person account

• Binding: Hardcover

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