Schöner, Johann; and Johannes Regiomontanus:

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[SAMMELBAND OF THREE GEOGRAPHICAL WORKS BY GLOBEMAKER SCHÖNER, WITH AN INCUNABLE EDITION OF REGIOMONTANUS'S ASTRONOMICAL TABLES]. From the collection of R. David Parsons. An interesting sammelband of titles: taken together, these works show the impact of the great transatlantic discoveries, how they were disseminated in Europe during the second decade of the 16th century, and how they affected contemporary geographical and celestial knowledge. The volume contains one of the earliest books to name America,the first book to picture a celestial globe, the first book about a celestial globe (known in only two American copies), and an incunable edition of Regiomontanus' tables, a work which is positively known to have been employed by Columbus on his fourth voyage in 1504. As they form such an integral group, the three Schöner titles were likely intended to be issued together (although they are rarely found thus in American institutions) and, along with the Regiomontanus tables, they form an up-to-date introduction to geography and practical astronomy of the sort which would have been of great utility to a 16th century navigator.Schöner (1477-1547), a German astronomer, geographer, globe-maker, mathematician, and printer, is best known for his terrestrial globes: that of 1515, after Waldseemüller (1507), the second to show America, and that of 1524, the first to delineate Magellan's circumnavigation. The connection between Schöner and Waldseemüller could not be stronger: it is hig

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