Nicolai Mercatoris Holsati, è Soc. Reg. Institutionum astronomicarum libri duo :. de motu astrorum communi & proprio, secundum hypotheses veterum & recentiorum praecipuas; deque hypotheseon ex observatis constructione: cum tabulis Tychonianis solaribus, lunaribus, lunae-solaribus, et Rudolphinis solis, fixarum, et quinque errantium; earumque usu præceptis & exemplis commonstrato. Quibus accedit appendix de iis, quae novissimis temporibus coelitus innotuerunt.
Gerardus Mercator (Rupelmonde 1512 -Duisburg 1594)
Category
Books
Date
1676
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3184167
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 288, 64 p. : ill., diagrams, tables ; 8vo. Provenance: eighteenth century manuscript inscription “Davenport Talbot”, i.e. William Davenport Talbot, 1764-1800, on recto of first free end-paper. Binding: eighteenth century blind-tooled calf; gilt tooling on edges of boards; blind tooled title "Mercator De motu astrorum 1676" on spine; text block edges sprinkled red and blue.
Makers and roles
Gerardus Mercator (Rupelmonde 1512 -Duisburg 1594) Nicolaus Mercator (1620-1687) Henry Hexham (1585-1650)