Apianus, (Bienewitz) Petrus, (1495-1552)

(1) Astronomici Caesarei...Ingoldtstadt 1540. (2) Constructio instrumenti ad horologiorum descriptioneem [sic] aptissimi [Unfinished].@$@Illustrated by carefully drawn astronomical figures and diagrams, one coloured (fol. 47).

1693

1 volume 6 bl. ll. + 79 ff. + 6 ll. + 9 bl. ll. folio. 27 x 211/2 cm. Original stamped pig-skin binding.

Purchased 1910.

The author, a distinguished German astronomer and geographer, was professor of mathematics at Ingoldtstadt, appointed by the Emperor Charles V in 1520, who later raised him to the rank of nobility. He invented the method of longitudes for measuring terrestrial distances.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

This is a companion volume, labelled on spine 'Vol. I,' to MS. 3646 [Münster], and it is written by the same transcriber who bears the initials N.J.C.V.M.I.V.D., and is dated 1693.

Engraved armorial book-plate of Georg Carl Joseph Rendl de Hainxenberg Jurisprudentiae Doctor et Comes Palatinus Caesareus.