Author: BLAEU, Guilielmus.
Title: Institutio astronomica. De usu globorum & sphaerarum caelestium ac terrestrium: Duabus partibus adornata, una, secundum hypothesin Ptolemaei, per terram quiescentem. Alter, juxta mentem N.Copernici, per terram mobilem.
Description: Amsterdam, Joannes Blaeu, 1652. 8vo. [xvi], 246, [2 blank] pp. With woodcut illustrations in the text. New leather binding, old covers preserved. (gutters repaired, waterstain in outer margin throughout, a few small marginal tears, a few small spots) ¶ Willem Janszoon Blaeu, the famous publlisher and cartographer, first published this manual of spheres and globes 'Tweevoudigh onderwijs van de hemelsche en aerdsche globen' in 1634.. This is the fourth edition of the latin translation (first in 1634). The translaton is by Martinus Hortensius, professor of mathematics in Amsterdam. With two introductory poems by Caspar Barlaeus. ¶ Hoogendoorn Blaeu081L/4. Only two copies in STCN (UBA, Västerås).

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