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Author:
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Apian, Peter, 1495-1552.
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Author (contributor):
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German Americana Digitization Project (John Carter Brown Library)
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Title:
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Astronomicum caesareum.
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Publisher:
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Factum et actum Ingolstadii in ædibus nostris Peter Apian
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Begin Publication Date:
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1540
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MMS Id (Alma identifier):
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991008737999706966
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Permanent Call Number:
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2-SIZE J540 .A642a
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Statistics Note 1 (Accession Number):
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STAT_NOTE_1_ACCESSION #: 15998
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Uniform Resource Identifier:
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https://archive.org/details/astronomicumcsar00apia
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Subjects:
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Charles--V,--Holy Roman Emperor,--1500-1558.
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Subjects:
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Ferdinand--I,--Holy Roman Emperor,--1503-1564.
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Subjects:
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Astronomy.
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Subjects:
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Comets.
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Subjects:
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Imprint 1540.
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General Note:
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Author's name given at head of fol. [3] recto (=A3 recto) as: Apianus.; Illustrated title page, with two woodcuts, one a frame surrounding the title, the other circular, with printed text on bottom left and right.; Reference in title is to Emperor Charles V to whom and his brother, King Ferdinand I, to whom this work is dedicated.; Imprint from colophon, printed in reverse (mirror image); Signatures: A-G⁴(±G2, G3+chi1) H-I⁴ k⁴ L-N⁴ O⁶ (-O6) chi2-chi3 (chi2 verso, chi3 verso blank); 38 full page text illustrations, 22 of them with volvelles (moving discs), many also with centrally attached silk threads. Volvelles are foundon the recto of leaves B3, C1, C3, D1, D3, E1, E2, E4, F2, F3, F4, chi1, G4, k3, k4, L1, L2, L3, L4, M1 and M3 and the verso of leaf G3. Additionally, a large number of smaller text illustrations are present.; "Without doubt ... the most luxurious and intrinsically beautiful scientific book that has ever been produced" -- Derek de Solla Price.; Fol. [60] recto (=chi3 recto) dated: Ratisbona, die vigesima quarta mensis Iulii, Anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo quadragesimo primo [Regensburg, 24 July 1541] and signed: Carolus. This leaf is lacking in many copies.; Cf. Price, D. de S. Science, 1967 p. 104; Gingerich, O. "Early astronomical books with moving parts", AB Bookman's Weekly p. 1507-1508, October 23, 1989.; Includes index.; Text divided into two parts; the second part has two alternative titles: Meteoroscopium planum Apiam (fol. [49] recto = M4 recto) and: Astronomici cæsarei per Petrum Apianum concinnati pars secunda (fol. [49] verso = M4 verso)
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Local Note:
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John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: lacks volvelles on fol. [9] recto (=C1 recto); John Carter Brown Library copy includes both cancellandum leaf -[26] (=-G2) and cancellans leaf +[26] (=+G2); John Carter Brown Library copy has many illustrations hand colored.
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