PTOLEMY, Claudius.
Almagestum seu magnae constructionis mathematicae opus plane divinum, latina donatum lingua ab Georgio Trapezuntio …...
Venice; Ingolstadt: [Lucantonio Giunta]; [Peter Apianus], 1528; [1533].
First edition of George of Trebizond’s Latin Almagest, the working copy of Georg Joachim Rheticus, signed by him at the head of the title and annotated in his hand on thirteen leaves. Rheticus was Copernicus’s only disciple. He reached Frombork in May 1539, aged twenty-five, and persuaded Copernicus to publish; his Narratio.....
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