Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De reuolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI : Habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, & aedito, studiose lector, motus stellarum, tam fixarum, quàm erraticarum, cum ex ueteribus, tum etiam ex recentibus obseruationibus restitutos: & nouis insuper ac admirabilibus hypothesibus ornatos. Habes etiam tabulas expeditissimas, ex quibus eosdem ad quoduis tempus quàm facillime caculare poteris. Igitur eme, lege, fruere. [Line in Greek]

Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543, Petrejus, Johannes, 1497-1550, publisher, Beham, Hans Sebald, 1500-1550, engraver, Szabad, George M., associated name. DSI, Burndy Library, donor. DSI · 1543 · Norimbergae : Apud Ioh. Petreium · 139 pictures

Copernicus's De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, the heliocentric astronomy treatise printed by Johannes Petreius at Nuremberg in 1543 for mathematicians and astronomers. The 142 figures are woodcut line diagrams: lettered circles, epicycles, chords and oblique sections through spheres, plus a few decorated initials, offering designers bare geometric schematics in black on laid paper.

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