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Pierre APIAN & Gemma FRISIUS

Cosmographia

Plantin, Anvers 1574, In 4 (17x21cm), (2) 64ff., relié.

New edition of Apian cosmography by Gemma Frisius having known many sixteenth. Although the original text Apian (Cosmographicus liber) was published in 1524, the oldest copy is cataloged, to our knowledge, an Antwerp edition of 1529 held by the Cathedral Library. The first illustrated edition, which also contains the writings of Gemma Frisius and the volvelles seems her date of 1550 and published in Antwerp. Our edition is strictly the same as that published by Arnold Birckmann Erben, Cologne, the privilege having been shared with Plantin. The figure includes a large title vignette (Map), a folding map, 110 woodcuts in the text (astronomical figures and measurements), the board of the charter cosmographic two diagrams volvelles and 4, which are mobile and hard articulated for easy navigation and without calculation using astronomical information such as the position of the moon or the sun ... Modern binding with ancient parchment manuscript and illuminated reuse with some tasks. Good copy. One of the objectives Apian, astronomer and mathematician, is to keep records of steps to achieve topography and mapping; that is why we find his name mixed up with that of Frisius, the famous cartographer of the sixteenth century. It will be one of the first to calculate longitude depending on the position of the moon. Although the astronomical postulate Apian is wrong (based on the Ptolemaic system, geocentrism), this does not prevent him to develop his work measurement, either from heaven or earth. The author also reports on the passage of Halley's Comet, interested in the length of its tail and the distance traveled. Moreover and in this sense, the Apian work is a direct continuation of astronomical knowledge developed by ancient and summarized by Ptolemy, where geography and astronomy were walking together, as they were based on the same system measurement and observation of the world.

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