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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Cosmographiae Introductio, written in Latin by Petrus Apianus, serves as an important text introducing the principles of cosmography alongside essential elements of geometry and astronomy. Published during the Renaissance, it reflects the era's burgeoning interest in understanding the structure and nature of the cosmos. This volume provides insight into the scientific thought of the 16th century and offers a valuable resource for those studying the history of science, astronomy, and the intellectual landscape of the Renaissance period. Its enduring relevance lies in its detailed exposition of early cosmographical concepts and their mathematical underpinnings.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Cosmographiae Introductio, written in Latin by Petrus Apianus, serves as an important text introducing the principles of cosmography alongside essential elements of geometry and astronomy. Published during the Renaissance, it reflects the era's burgeoning interest in understanding the structure and nature of the cosmos. This volume provides insight into the scientific thought of the 16th century and offers a valuable resource for those studying the history of science, astronomy, and the intellectual landscape of the Renaissance period. Its enduring relevance lies in its detailed exposition of early cosmographical concepts and their mathematical underpinnings.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

(31 x 21 cm). 12 nn. Bll. (das letzte leer). Mit großem Titelholzschnitt von Hans Brosamer, einem ganzseitigen Wappenholzschnitt, einer doppelblattgroßen Holzschnitt-Tafel und 2 Textholzschnitten. Rückenbroschur in moderner Leinwand-Kassette. Einzige Ausgabe, mit lateinisch-deutschem Text, hier vollständig mit der meist fehlenden Tafel, die zur Benutzung entnommen und auf Holz montiert werden sollte. - Das Werk enthält die Beschreibung der von Apian erfundenen Sonnenuhr in Gestalt eines Pappelblattes und ist nicht im "Instrument-Buch" enthalten. "Entnommen werden damit die gleichlangen Stunden, ferner die 'Judenstunden' und die Stunden seit Aufgang und Untergang der Sonne" (Zinner, Instrumente). - Die Schrift ist Johann Wilhelm von Laubenberg gewidmet, mit dessen Wappen auf der Tafel sowie der Titelrückseite. Trefflicherweise zeigt es drei Pappelblätter. - Titel stellenweise leicht fleckig. Die Tafel mit kleinen restaurierten Stellen. Insgesamt wohlerhalten. - Zinner, Instrumente 116 und 233; Zinner, Bibliographie 1513; VD16 A3084; Van Ortroy 106; Adams A 1289.…

An exceptional and entirely unsophisticated working copy of one of the most influential scientific books of the sixteenth century-the compact manual that taught Europe how to measure and describe the world. In its original limp-vellum binding, strengthened inside with a strip of medieval manuscript on parchment, it preserves not only the four intricate volvelle plates but also the rare separate pointer (manubrium) for the instrumentum siderale, together with an old plumb line and the stub of a thread-indicator showing genuine early use. The large heart-shaped world map, here in the Latin-Dutch "K" state used on Antwerp printings of the 1550s, unfolds clean and complete, and the book carries on its endpapers an extraordinary series of contemporary Dutch working notes explaining how to take the sun's noon altitude with an astrolabe or quadrant and convert degrees into miles. Binding, map, and annotations all point unmistakably to active Low Countries use, making this copy a rare survival in which the Cosmographia can still be read as its author and editor intended: a tool for doing mathematics and for mapping the newly enlarged world. Provenance: In contemporary limp vellum, characteristically Netherlandish, with wide yapped fore-edges and traces of the original ties; the spine is lined internally with a long strip of medieval vellum manuscript from the Vulgate Isaiah, used by the binder as structural reinforcement. The volume shows clear evidence of sixteenth-century Low Countries ownership and use. On the rear endpaper a long Dutch manuscript note explains how to determine the sun's meridian altitude "opten rechten middag" with an astrolabe or quadrant, how to correct for declination north or south of the equinoctial, and how to translate degrees of latitude into miles; a shorter related note appears on the front blank. Within the text the mechanical diagrams have been handled and occasionally repaired in period: at D1v a small plumb line with a lead bob remains attached to the volvelle, and at C3v the stub of a thread pointer is still visible. Most remarkably, the separate paper pointer (manubrium) for the instrumentum siderale on O4v survives intact, pasted at the margin-almost never found in other copies. The overall aspect is that of a practitioner's working book, owned by someone familiar with the language of the workshop rather than the lecture hall-perhaps a surveyor, navigator, or instrument-maker active in the southern Netherlands around the middle of the sixteenth century. The Dutch vernacular notes on method and conversion rules bring the book vividly back to life as a tool of daily measurement, linking it directly to the technical culture that Gemma Frisius and his circle at Louvain had helped to create. Apianus first published his Cosmographicus liber in 1524, giving the lay mathematician a portable grammar of the world: how to lay out the terrestrial grid; what it means to reckon latitude and longitude; climates and winds; simple surveying; and a brief tour of the continents. In the 1530s and 1540s, Gemma Frisius-physician, instrument-maker and mathematician at Louvain-re-engineered the book. He corrected Apianus's text, added whole chapters of his own, and overlaid the treatise with mechanised diagrams (the volvelles) and instrumental instruction (notably on the astronomical ring). In the Libellus de locorum describendorum ratione, included here after Apian's two parts and appendix, Gemma proposes and illustrates the principle of triangulation: measure a baseline, then determine unknown distances and positions by angles-a deceptively simple procedure that became the structural method of modern topographic survey. Antwerp redactions of the 1540s-this 1545 Bonte among them-are how that method was disseminated on a continental scale: practical, affordable, and bristling with apparatus one could use at the bench or in the field. The 1545 Antwerp printing belongs to the same vigorous intellectual and commercial milie. Signed.…

Ingolstadii, in aedibus P. Apiani, 1534, in-folio, legatura seicentesca in piena pergamena, dorso a 6 nervi (mancanza dello scomparto superiore, qualche difetto alla pergamena del piatto posteriore, erosioni lungo i labbri dei piatti), pp. [40], CCCCCXII, [8]. Con frontespizio in rosso e nero con grande xilografia allegorica incisa da Hans Brosamer da un disegno di Albrecht Durer, stemma di Raimund Fugger in xilografia al recto della seconda carta, pagine inquadrate da cornici xilografiche e 184 xilografie n.t. Marca xilografica in fine (motto in latino, ebraico e greco: Industria superat vires). Variante B descritta in ICCU. Prima edizione, stampata a spese del banchiere Raimund Fugger. L'opera presenta iscrizioni classiche e statue raccolte in tutta Europa (tra cui molte nella collezione dello stesso Fugger). Strappo con perdita di testo alla carta bb3. Traccia di umidità al margine alto di diverse carte, restauri reintegrativi al margine bianco inferiore delle ultime 50 carte.…

A great and influential work on cosmography, perspective and many related subjects, in the original Latin, being Gemma Frisius's extensively revised and expanded version of Petrus Apianus's account of cosmography, providing readable explanations and numerous clarifying woodcut illustrations. Apianus and Frisius discuss latitude and longitude and their determination, the earth's climatic zones, maps, surveying, triangulation, and give a brief description of the continents, including the New World. The illustrations include a folding cordiform world map. The ingenious volvelles with their moving dials and pointers clearly illustrate the position and movement of celestial bodies.With a few small marginal tears, chips or excisions, one at the foot of the title-page very slightly affecting the border of the woodcut and one at the head of the title-page removing an old owner's inscription, and browned water stains at the foot throughout and at the head of the last 5 quires.l Adams A1284; Belg. Typ. 5087; Bib. Belg. A227; STCV 12915940; USTC 408135; cf. Van Ortroy, Frisius 28 (Bellère issue); Sabin 1738-1756 (other eds. & issues); Voet 573 (Plantin issue); for Apianus: DSB I, pp. 178-179. Recased in 17th-century(?) limp sheepskin parchment, sewn on 3 wittawed thongs laced through the joints, with the title and author written in large textura lettering down the spine. With a large woodcut on the title page (with a terrestrial globe and other instruments); 4 printed paper volvelles with moving parts and a woodcut sun dial with a string attached to its centre; a folding woodcut cordiform mappa mundi (block size 19 x 27.5 cm) with letterpress text in the margins; well over 100 further woodcut illustrations, diagrams, maps, etc., in the text. Further with a woodcut arabesque tailpiece, numerous woodcut decorated initials (8 series?), a decoration built up from arabesque fleurons, and letterpress tables. Pages: [2], 64, [2] ll. plus folding woodcut.…

Folio, pp. [xl], CCCCCXII, [6], [2] blank and printer's device; title page printed in red and black, with superb large woodcut of a group being led by Mercury; most leaves printed within woodcut historiated borders, and with many woodcut illustrations; bound in modern calf or sheep, the upper cover decorated somewhat to resemble a cuir-ciselé binding of the period (signed 'C M' at bottom right), and coloured in red and green; with more recent crimson silk endleaves; but nevertheless retaining what is apparently a contemporary foredge inscription with the title; joints somewhat rubbed, but internally in fine condition. First edition, and a fine fresh copy of this splendid book, of both artistic and antiquarian interest, recording lapidary inscriptions from all over Europe, ancient and modern, but especially in Germany and Italy. Petrus Apianus (the latinised name of Peter Bienewitz, 1495-1552) was born in Saxony, and studied at Leipzig, Vienna and Regensburg before settling at Ingolstadt in 1527, where he began a printing shop. The most celebrated production of his press was the Astronomicum Caesareum (1540), dedicated to Charles V: this present work, not so ambitious (or so expensive) is concerned with Roman inscriptions in various countries and was compiled with Bartholomaeus Amantius; it was commissioned by and dedicated to the banker Raimund Fugger, whose arms are seen on Aa2. The prefatory address by Apianus and Amantius, 'mathematices', is on Bb2v-3r, and is dated 2 July 1534. The volume begins with Spain (pp. 1-24), then Cisalpine Gaul (effectively northern Italy, pp. 25-97), Italy proper (98-355), Illyria, Dalmatia and Carnia (pp. 356-377), Germany (pp. 358-490), Hungary (491-494) and Greece (494-507). There are also very short records of inscriptions in Sicily and North Africa (both of which are surely rich in such matter), and also in Asia and Judaea. The woodcuts are attributed to Hans Brosamer (d. about 1554), and include a splendid title page woodcut of Mercury, after a drawing by Dürer, the original of which is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. There are well over a hundred other woodcuts, some almost full page, throughout the volume, but perhaps the most attractive series is at the very end of the volume, a series of images of antique statuettes, illustrating classical gods and mythological creatures (Pan, Laocoon, Bacchae etc). Provenance. With a seventeenth century ownership inscription of the Jesuits at Cordoba, and their library stamp at bottom right; then in the episcopal library in the same city. As a consequence of the book having been in Spain, it must have been censored by a Catholic inquisitor: an entire preface by Philipp Melanchthon on leaf bb2, dated 2 January 1533 (presumably 1534) has been carefully and laboriously inked over so that it is now illegible. VD16 A3086; Cicognara 3095; Adams A1291; not in Fairfax Murray (German).…

In-4 de (8), 333 pp., 1 f. bl. Vélin. (Reliure de l'époque.). Belle édition dans la traduction et les additions de Regnier Gemma ou Gemma Frisius. Elle est illustrée par de nombreux bois gravés (globes, sphères, instruments d'astronomie et d'arpentage) et une carte du monde sur double page, d'après la carte dressée par Gemma Frisius en 1540, qui est aujourd'hui perdue. 5 gravures portent des volvelles (des parties mobiles) : 2 volvelles p. 20. Une ficelle pour pointer p. 22. 3 volvelles et une ficelle p. 26. 3 volvelles p. 66. 2 volvelles p. 189. Exemplaire complet de toutes ses parties mobiles ce qui est très rare et la carte du monde est bien présente. On trouve à la fin du texte d'Apian "L'usage de l'anneau astronomique" de Gemma Frisius et aussi, du même "L'usage du globe astronomique" et le "Ray astronomique & géométrique". In-4 de (8), 333 pp., 1 f. bl. Vélin. (Reliure de l'époque.) Fine edition in the translation and additions of Regnier Gemma or Gemma Frisius. It is illustrated with numerous woodcuts (globes, spheres, astronomical and surveying instruments). Complete of all moving parts (10 volvelles and 2 thread pointers) and the double page world map. It is based on the larger map prepared by Gemma Frisius and published in Louvain in 1540, but which has now been lost. North America is labelled 'Baccalearium' in reference to the cod fishing nearby. 5 engravings bear volvelles (moving parts): 2 volvelles p. 20. A string for pointing on p. 22. 3 volvelles and a string on p. 26. 3 volvelles on p. 66. At the end of the Apian text is "L'usage de l'anneau astronomique" by Gemma Frisius and by the same "L'usage du globe astronomique" and "Ray astronomique & géométrique". Shirley, Mapping of the world N° 96. Brun, Le livre illustré de la Renaissance 112. -.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. FAMOUS ILLUSTRATED SCIENCE [Landshut, Peter Apian, Johann Weißenburger, 1524]. FIRST EDITION. pp. [8], 104, [6], lacking final blank. Gothic letter. Title in red and black, large woodcut globe, large woodcut arms of Archbishop of Salzburg (dedicatee) in red and black to verso of title, large woodcut armillary sphere in red and black to [*]4 verso, 46 full-page or smaller woodcuts of globes, astronomical diagrams or instruments, maps and eclipses, 4 volvelles (on pp.17v, 24v, 63r and +1v, plus 2 movable parts pasted at blank foot of last), 1 supplied, numerical tables, decorated initials and ornaments. Slight foxing along edges, heavier to title, light age yellowing, light browning to 2 volvelles as often on 17r, +1v and the 2 pasted parts, occasional minor finger-soiling. A very good copy, on thick paper, in c.1700 quarter sheep over paper boards, spine gilt, gilt-lettered label, a bit scuffed. Early ms. annotations at foot of p.4, contemporary editorial ms marginal corrections to p.23. USTC 625636; Alden 524/2 (4); Harrisse, BAV, 127 (3); Ortroy, Apian, 22 (3, fols 17, 24, 63); Sabin 1738 (2); Borba de Moraes, Bib. Brasiliana, I, 35 (4 + 2 movables parts); VD16 A 3080; Zinner 1230. Numbers in parentheses indicate number of volvelles. J.C. Barentine, Uncharted Constellations (2016); A.S. Drennan, The Bibliographical Description of Astronomical Volvelles and Other Moveable Diagrams , The Library, 13 (2012), pp.316-39; The Whipple Museum of the History of Science (2019); Vanden Broecke, The use of visual media in Renaissance cosmography , Paedagogica Historica, 36 (2000), pp.131-50.…

First and only edition. Printed at the expense of the banker Raimund Fugger, this work presents classical inscriptions and statues collected all over Europe (including many in Fugger's own collection). The text is based on earlier studies by Peutinger, Pirckheimer and others. An exceptionally fine work from the private press of Peter Apianus (1495-1552), mainly known as a mathematician and geographer.The title woodcut by Hans Brosamer (after Dürer) and Fugger's coat of arms (by M. Ostendorfer) are splendidly hand-coloured and highlighted with gold; undoubtedly the work of the book's previous owner, Johann Spiegler, who signs his name below the imprint on the title page ("Annumeror libris Joannis Spiegleri Juliomagensis"). Spiegler is known as a Constance miniaturist active during the first half of the 18th century (cf. Brun, SKL III, 1913) and is sometimes identified with the Constance painter Franz Joseph (Johann) Spiegler (1691-1757; cf. Thieme & Becker XXXI, 370 ff.).Slight water stains and torn edges near end; occasional marginal restorations. Page 1r (whose textblock extendsfar into the margin) is shaved with the loss of the final character in the right column. An uncommonly beautiful copy, last in the collection of the Maryland pharmaceutical investor Charles W. Newhall.l Adams A1291; BM STC German, p. 37; Brunet I, col. 342; Günther (Apian) 20f; Index Aureliensis 106422; Stalla 85; Van Ortroy 109; USTC 666636; VD 16, 3086. Contemporary vellum. With the title page printed in red and black, large emblematic woodcut after Albrecht Dürer (hand-coloured and highlighted with gold ca. 1730), woodcut coat of arms of Raimund Fugger (hand-coloured and highlighted with gold), 184 woodcut illustrations and 7 large woodcut initials. Nearly every page framed by 4 woodcut decorative border strips (several varieties). Pages: [40], CCCCCXII, [8] pp.…

Single sheet, float-mounted and framed (sheet size: 13 x 18 inches; 11 4/8 x 16 inches to the neat line; framed size: 24 x 29 inches). Fine woodcut map of the world in a cordiform projection by Laurent Fries, the title within a banner along the top edge, with a globe and sphere hanging beneath, the compass directions outside the neat line, showing North and South America, all surrounded by an elaborate border of windheads, wreaths and clouds. THE FIRST AVAILABLE PRINTED MAP TO BEAR THE NAME AMERICA Published in the 1520 edition of Julius Caius SOLINUS's (second half 3rd-century AD) "in. C.IVLII Solini [Polyhistora] Enarrationes". The world map prepared by Peter Apian is preceded in naming "America" only by and modeled on the large 1507 wall map by Waldseemüller, of which only one example remains. North and South America are represented as narrow strips of land separated by a wide channel. The northern continent is called merely "Terra incognita," but the southern has the inscription: "Anno d 1497 haec terra cum adiacetib, insulis inuenta est per Columbum Ianuensem ex mandato regis Castellae America puincia", in homage to Columbus as the discoverer of America, rather than Amerigo Vespucci, whom Waldeseemuller had named the landmass for on his map of 1507. Three sets of initials appear cut into the woodblock: "Laurent Fries, whose initials appear in the lower right-hand corner, was probably the co-draughtsman or woodcutter. the other initials are those of Johann Kamers (Camertius) in whose book the map appeared and (in monograme form) L A or Luca Alantses who paid for the production of the map" (Shirley 45). During the sixteenth-century, the quest for geographical knowledge of the world was primarily spurred on by trade and, in turn, the great trading nations of Europe also became leaders in the printing of maps. Italy and Germany were at the forefront of both, the former through her various sea-ports and the latter because of her location connecting land routes to the east and south-east. Centers for Italian map-making developed in Venice and in Germany, Nuremberg, the Rhineland and Vienna were pre-eminent. Peter Apian, also known by his Latin name Petrus Apainus, was professor of mathematics in the latter of these German centers. He also held mathematic chairs at Ingolstadt and Innsbruck and was known as a great astronomer. These skills combined with his interest in geography led to the establishment of his own printing press in Landshut. "His text book 'Cosmographicus Liber' first came out in 1524 and was re-issued for over eighty years" (Shirley, 45).…

4to (8 1/4 x 6 in.; 51.4 x 15.2 cm.). Title-page with large woodcut of a globe. Woodcut geographical and astronomical diagrams throughout, including four WITH FINE MOVABLE VOLVELLES on C2v, D1r (3 volvelles and thread pointer), I1r (3 volvelles), 2A2v (2 volvelles) (C3v without thread pointer), and with a fine folding world map, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials; missing front free endpaper; some pale dampstaining. Contemporary calf, front board with wide blind-stamped border with centerpiece, spine in 4 compartments with 5 raised bands; worn with minor loss on foot of spine, recased preserving most of the original binding. Apianus' "Cosmographia" was first published in 1524, and so popular that it was published in twenty-nine editions before 1600. It contains a reduced version of Apianus' celebrated cordiform world map "Charta Cosmographica" after Waldseemuller's map of 1507, which was first included in the edition of 1545. Apianus was a professor of mathematics, holding chairs at Ingolstadt and Innsbruck, and a great astronomer. These skills combined with his interest in geography led to the establishment of his own printing press in Landshut. North America is depicted as a narrow stretch of land extending almost eastwards. Cuba and Hispaniola are shown as huge islands and the Mountains of the Moon considered the source of the River Nile. A 'truncated' cordiform projection is used which prevents the south polar regions being represented. The map is bordered by signs of the zodiac and the Ptolemaic climatic zones. Zeus and Mars, wearing the coats of arms of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, are shown atop the map while wind-heads at the south represent the traditional believed plague-bearing nature of those winds. The map is highly decorative but also an important milestone in the history of cartography as it is ONE OF THE EARLIEST MAPS TO SHOW A REPRESENTATION OF AMERICA, or the name itself. "Climata Australia" appears in the woodcut on page 15, and in the left-hand margin of the map. This edition of the "Cosmographia" has been enlarged by Apianus' student, Frisius Gemma, and was first published in 1529, and is now further enlarged to include material by le Docteur Francisque Lopez de Gomara concerning America ("Situs ac Descriptio Novi Orbis, seu Indiarum Occidentalium" pages 168-187) originally published in the Spanish edition, Antwerp, 1575. Gemma was a gifted mathematician, cartographer, maker of fine scientific instruments as well as Apianus's student. His edition of Apianus's "Cosmographia" "was one of the most popular texts of the time and was translated into all major European languages" (DSB). It includes Gemma s description of how triangulation is used in surveying and mapping first published in 1533: "the first to propose - and illustrate - the principle of triangulation as a means of carefully locating places and accurately mapping areas" (DSB). PROVENANCE: Royal supra libros on the front and back covers. REFERENCES: Dictionary of Scientific Biography.…

Antverpiae ( Antwerpen ) , Apud haeredes Arnoldi Birckmanni, printed by Aegidius van Diest (in colophon), 1564, in-4°, 21 x 16 cm, (4)nn pp (title with large woodcut globe) + 128 pp (numbered fol.1-64) + (3)nn pp (tabella) + (1)(bl), with 45 woodcuts in the text, a double page worldmap (Shirley 96) and 4 volvelles (complete). Bound in brown coloured and blindtooled vellum, spine renewed. Nice complete copy , and with, which is very rare, the four volvelles or Apian wheels in perfect shape and absolutely complete. The only negative remark to be made for completeness sake is that the worldmap has been very slightly shaven at the top, resulting in the loss of the head of a few letters. Bound in at the end is '' Himmels lauffs wirckung und natuerliche influentz der Planeten, Gestirn und Zeychen.''. Frankfurt, 1564, haer. Christian Egenolff. (8)nn pp + 108 pp, with woodcut ills. Unfortunately this book lacks four leaves ( Cii , Ei, Oiii and Yiiii). (USTC 663722). The first edition of Apianus' major work on astronomy , geography and cartography was published in Landshut in 1524. In 1533 was published in Antwerp a reworked edition incorporating the triangulation method developped by Gemma Frisius which opened the way to modern cartography. Indeed the first map with accurate distances was made in the Southern Low Countries based upon triangulations made by Gemma Frisius who climbed the Sint-Rombauts cathedral tower in Mechelen and started measuring the distances to Lier, Antwerpen, Gent , Brussel, Bergen op Zoom, Leuven. (Explanation on pages 51-53). USTC 404413 (Apian) . …