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About this Item

Title

  • Astronomicum cæsareum

Names

  • Apian, Peter, 1495-1552
  • Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [Ingolstadii, s.n. 1540]

Headings

  • -  Astronomy--Early works to 1800
  • -  Comets--Early works to 1800
  • -  Germany--Ingolstadt

Notes

  • -  Colophon: Factvm et actvm Ingolstadii in aedibvs nostris anno a Christo nato sesqvimillesimo qvadragesimo mense maio.
  • -  The colophon is printed in reverse from right to left.
  • -  Signatures: A-F⁴; G⁴⁻²⁺³, H-N⁴; O⁶. Canceled fold G2.3 bound at end.
  • -  One or more volvelles with 21 of the plates. The placement of volvelles differs from that in the facsim. ed. published at Leipzig in 1967.
  • -  Title within colored ornamental border. Title vignette colored; initials partly colored; marginal notes. Text in double columns.
  • -  Illustrations and plates, many with movable parts, are mostly colored.
  • -  Part 2 contains: Meteoroscopin planum.--Observationes cometarvm quinque.--Torquetum.
  • -  For full description see Gingerich, Apianus' Astronomicum caesareum and its Leipzig facsimile in Journal of the history of astronomy, ii (1971), 168-177.
  • -  Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 678
  • -  Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, 1943-1975.
  • -  LAC ecr 2018-10-23 update (1 card)

Medium

  • [117] p. illus., coats of arms, plates, diagrs. 48 cm. (fol.)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • QB41 .A64 1540
  • QB41 .A64 1540 Copy 2 With the canceled fold at end. Lacks the volvelle at F4 recto. Duplicates of the volvelles at G3 verso are placed at C1 recto. Hand-colored.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 13033976

OCLC Number

  • 28791339

Online Format

  • online text
  • pdf
  • image

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Apian, Peter, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. Astronomicum Cæsareum. [Ingolstadii, s.n, 1540] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/13033976/.

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Apian, P. & Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. (1540) Astronomicum Cæsareum. [Ingolstadii, s.n] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/13033976/.

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Apian, Peter, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. Astronomicum Cæsareum. [Ingolstadii, s.n, 1540] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/13033976/>.