Astronomia philolaica. Opus novum, in quo motus planetarum per novam ac veram hypothesim demonstrantur. Mediique motus, aliquot obseruationum authoritate, ex manuscripto Bibliothecae Regiae quae hactenus omnibus astronomis ignotae fuerunt, stabiliuntur ; superque illa hypothesi tabvlae constructae omnium, quotquot hactenus editae sunt, facillimae ; addita est nova methodvs cvivs ope eclipses solares, absque vlla solutione triangulorum sphaericorum ad parallaxes inuestigandas, expeditissimè computantur ; historia ortvs et progressvs astronomiae in prolegomenis describitur, & breuiter recensentur ea, quae in hoc opere nunc primum prodeunt.
Paris: Siméon Piget, 1645. First edition, very rare, of “the most important work on planetary systems between Kepler and Isaac Newton” (Robert Alan Hatch in Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers), “the first treatise after Kepler’s Rudolphine Tables to take elliptical orbits as a basis for calculating planetary tables” (Cambridge Companion to..... More
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