Astronomy, Relativity Theory
Bracciano: Andreas Phaeus, 1626-30. First edition of the most lavishly illustrated astronomical work published in the first half of the seventeenth century, with many full-page illustrations of Scheiner’s observations of the sun and of the optical instruments he had designed for the purpose. “For his masterpiece, Scheiner produced the first..... More
Item #4508
Ingolstadt: Eder for Elisabeth Angermaria, 1614 & 1615. First edition, in a beautiful contemporary binding, of Scheiner’s very rare work containing the second earliest map of the moon – but the first to give topographical details – as well as the first illustrations of a telescope. It builds upon Scheiner’s..... More
Item #4126
Frankfurt: Paul Jacobi for Luca Jennis, 1618. First edition, extremely rare, of “the first book about the telescope, its invention and use” (Zinner). Written by the Milanese scholar Girolamo Sirtori in 1612, only four years after the telescope was invented, it contained a complete set of instructions and diagrams for... More
Item #4706
Leiden: George Abrahamsz van Maarssen for Jodocus Colster, 1617. First edition of Snel’s most important work. This was “the foundation of modern geodesy” (Galileo Project) and of great significance in the history of navigation. “With the development of their oceanic commerce, the Dutch became very interested in the most accurate..... More
Item #4229
[St. Petersburg: 1874]. First edition, extremely rare offprint, of Struve’s ‘discovery’ of the faint companion to the star Procyon, which together form a binary system. This offprint is accompanied by two signed autograph letters from Struve to the Scottish amateur astronomer Robert Stirling Newall (1812-89), who at the time owned..... More
Item #4324
Nürnberg: Stuchs, 1514. First edition of Werner’s most important book, an extremely rare and highly influential work on cartography and navigation, containing the first published direct translation of any part of Ptolemy’s Geography from the original Greek. It includes the first publication of the Werner map projection, which was widely..... More
Item #3080
![Rosa ursina sive Sol ex admirando facularum & macularum suarum phoenomeno varius: necnon circa centrum suum et axem fixum ab occasu in ortum annua, circaq[ue] alium axem mobilem ab ortu in occasum conuersione quasi menstrua, super polos proprios, libris quatuor mobilis ostensus …. Christoph SCHEINER.](/pictures/thumb/4508.jpg?v=1527422515)
![Disquisitiones mathematicae, de controversiis et novitatibus astronomicis quas sub praesidio Christophori Scheiner, De Societate Iesv ... publice disputandas posvit, propvgnavit ... Ioannes Georgius Locher ... Ingolstadt: Eder for Elisabeth Angermaria, 1614. [Bound after:] TANNER, Adam, praes. Astrologia Sacra: hoc est, Orationes et Quaestiones quinque, quibus explicatur, an et qua ratione fas sit homini christiano, de rebus occultis, praesertim futuris, ex astris iudicium ferre / Dictae & discussae ... D. Otho Henricus Bachmair Monacensis, ... & D. Fridericus Pirchinger, . Promotore Adamo Tannero, E Societate Jesu ... Ingolstadt: Eder for Elisabeth Angermaria, 1615. Christoph SCHEINER, Adam TANNER.](/pictures/thumb/4126.jpg?v=1483528135)
![In hoc opere haec co[n]tinentur: Noua translatio primi libri Geographiæ Cl. Ptolomæi Geographia quæ quidem translatio verbum habet e verbo fideliter expressum Præceptio super plana terraru[m] orbis descriptione Libellus de quatuor terrarum orbis in plano figurationibus Epistola ad Bessarionem de compositione et usu cuiusd. meteoroscopii Libellus Ioannis Verneri Nurenbergen[si] de quatuor aliis planis terrarum orbis descriptionibus propositio ... De his quæ geographiæ debent adesse Georgii Amirucii oposculum In Georgii Amirucii Constantinopolitani opusculum: Ioannis Verneri Nurenbergen[si] appendices Ad Bessarionem Cardinalem Nicenum ac patriarcham Co[n]stantinopolitanum: de compositione Metheoroscopii. Johannes WERNER.](/pictures/thumb/3080.jpg?v=1434448547)