Continentur in hoc Iibro. Rudimenta astronomica Alfragrani. Item ALBATEGNIUS astronomus peritissimus [AL-BATTANI, Muhammad ibn Jabir] de motu stellarum, ex observationibus tum propriis, tum Ptolemaei, omnia cum demonstrationibus geometricis & additionibusIoannis de Regiomonte. Item oratio introductoria in omnes scientias mathematicas Ioannis de Regiomonte, Patavii habita, cum Alfraganum publice praelegeret. Eiusdem utilissima introductio in Elementa Euclidis. Item epistola Phillippi MELANTHONIS nuncupatoria, ad Senatum Noribergensem. Omnia iam recens prelis publicata.
Nuremberg: [Johann Petreius], 1537. First edition, extremely rare, combining two major Arabic works on planetary astronomy: al-Battani’s The Motions of the Stars, printed here for the first time, and al-Farghani’s Elements of Astronomy, here in its second printed edition but the first with the additions and geometrical proofs of Regiomontanus..... More
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