Mercurius In Sole Visus Et Venus Invisa Parisiis Anno 1631 Pro Voto Admonitione Keppleri Cujus

by Pierre Gassendi

$18,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Paris; Tubingen: Sébastien Cramoisy; Typis Theodorici Werlini; impensis Philiberti Brunni, 1632; 1632. First edition, very rare, of Gassendi’s work containing the description of the first observation of the transit of Mercury across the Sun. It was addressed to Wilhelm Schickard, a professor of astronomy at Tübingen, and we include the first edition of Schickard’s reply. The

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