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C. Ivlii Hygini, Avgvsti liberti, Fabvlarvm liber ... antehac nunquam excusus. Evisdem Poeticon astronomicon libri quatuor. Quibus accesserunt similis agrumenti, Palaephati De fabulosis narrationibus, liber I. F. Fvlgentii Placiadis ... Mythologiarum libri III. Eivsdem De uocum antiquarum interpretatione, liber I. Arati Phainomenon fragmentum, Germanico Caesare interprete. Eivsdem Phaenomena Graece, cum interpretatione latina Procli De sphaera libellus, Graece & Latine. Index rerum & fabularum ..

Hyginus, Palaephatus, Fulgentius, Fabius Planciades, Aratus, Solensis, Proclus, ca. 410-485, Hyginus, C. Julius, Moltzer, Jakob, 1503-1558 · 1535 · Basileae, Apud Ioan. Hervagivm · 50 pictures

A Basel folio of 1535 printed by Johann Herwagen, gathering Hyginus's Fabulae and Poeticon astronomicon with Palaephatus, Fulgentius, Aratus and Proclus in Latin and Greek for humanist scholars and students of ancient astronomy. Roughly fifty woodcuts give each constellation as a figure — goat-fish, half-bull, lion, altar flanked by beasts — drawn in open contour with parallel hatching, the stars set into the bodies as small six-pointed marks usable as spot symbols, borders, or celestial motifs.

Mythology, Classical · Astronomy, Ancient · Astronomy, Greek

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