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Commentationes in motum terrae diurnum, & annuum, et in verum adspectabilis caeli typum... / Vesta sive Ant-Aristarchi vindex, adversus Iac. Lansbergium Philippi F., medicum Middelburgensem..
by LANSBERGE, Johan Philip van
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Middelburg / Antwerp: Z. Romanus / Plantin Press, 1630. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (207 x 164 mm). [40], 65, [3] pp., woodcut on title showing the heliocentric system, woodcut initials and headpiece, folding engraved plate, errata on leaf L3 verso, including final blank leaf L4. Signatures: A-B4 ***4 2A-F4 G2 H-L4. [Bound with:] FROMONDUS, Libertus. Vesta sive Ant-Aristarchi vindex, adversus Iac. Lansbergium Philippi F., medicum Middelburgensem... Antwerp: Plantin Press (B. Moretus), 1634. [24], 173, [3] pp., title with printer's woodcut device, repeated on final leaf recto, woodcut initials and tailpieces, penultimate leaf with colophon verso. Signatures: *-***4 A-Y4. Two works in one volume. 4to (208 x 161 mm). Contemporary sprinkled sheep, spine with 4 raised bands, blindstamped and faintly gilt in compartments, red-sprinkled edges, original endpapers (hinges and corners repaired, extremties rubbed, corners bumped). Text somewhat browned, first work with light waterstaining, more pronounced on pages 25-36 and plate, second work with brown spot near gutter of final 7 leaves (in final leaf causing hole, this backed by paper, not affecting text). Provenance: Joannes Grootloon, Limburg? (prizebook with award incription on first flyleaf). ----
Poggendoff I, 1373; DSB VIII, p.28; Bierens de Haan 2667. RARE FIRST EDITION in Latin of Bedenckingen op den dagelyckschen, ende jaerlyckschen loop van den aerdt-kloot (Middelburg, 1629), translated by Martinus van den Hove, of van Lansberge's treatise on the probability of earth's motion according to the Copernican theory. In his preface, Van den Hove considered Lansberge, not Tycho Brahe, as the one who was restoring astronomy. The second work is a reply by the Leuven professor Fromondus (1587-1653) to Jacobus Lansbergius' defense of his father Philippus (Apologia, 1633), who had been attacked by Fromondus in his Ant-Aristarchus (1631). - Visit our website to see more images!
Poggendoff I, 1373; DSB VIII, p.28; Bierens de Haan 2667. RARE FIRST EDITION in Latin of Bedenckingen op den dagelyckschen, ende jaerlyckschen loop van den aerdt-kloot (Middelburg, 1629), translated by Martinus van den Hove, of van Lansberge's treatise on the probability of earth's motion according to the Copernican theory. In his preface, Van den Hove considered Lansberge, not Tycho Brahe, as the one who was restoring astronomy. The second work is a reply by the Leuven professor Fromondus (1587-1653) to Jacobus Lansbergius' defense of his father Philippus (Apologia, 1633), who had been attacked by Fromondus in his Ant-Aristarchus (1631). - Visit our website to see more images!
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- Commentationes in motum terrae diurnum, & annuum, et in verum adspectabilis caeli typum... / Vesta sive Ant-Aristarchi vindex, adversus Iac. Lansbergium Philippi F., medicum Middelburgensem..
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- LANSBERGE, Johan Philip van
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- Hardcover
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1st Edition
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- Z. Romanus / Plantin Press
- Place of Publication
- Middelburg / Antwerp
- Date Published
- 1630
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- Astronomy, Earth motion, copernican theory, Aristarchus, heliocentric system
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