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Cosmographia in qvatvor libros distribvta summo ordine, miraqve facilitate, ac breuitate ad magnam Ptolemæi mathematicam constructionem, ad vniuersamque astrologiam institutens. Francisco Barocio ... avtore. Cum præfatione eiusdem autoris, in qua perfecta quidem astrologiæ diuisio, & enarratio autorum illustrium, & voluminum ab eis conscriptorum in singulis astrologiæ partibus habetur: Joannis de Sacrobosco verò 84 errores, et alij permulti suorum expositorum, & sectatorum ostenduntur. rationibusq[uam] redarguuntur. Præcesserunt etiam quædam communia mathematica, necnon arithmetica, & geometrica principia, nonnullæq[uam] propositiones, de quibus in toto opere sæpe fit mentio: ac demum locupletissimus index eorum, quæ ipsa Cosmographia continentur ..

Barozzi, Francesco, 1537-1604 · 1585 · Venetijs, ex officina G. Perchacini · 80 pictures

Francesco Barozzi's Cosmographia, a four-book Latin treatise on spherical astronomy printed by Perchacino in Venice in 1585 for university students of Ptolemaic astronomy. Woodcut diagrams set circles, epicycles, hatched globes, star asterisks and a rayed sun face against dense type, giving designers stark black-and-white geometry, stippled rings and labelled celestial schematics.

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