Parafrasi di Monsignor Alessandro Piccolomini ... sopra leMecaniche d'Aristotile

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Alexandri Piccolominei in mechanicas quaestiones Aristotelis : Paraphrasis paulo quidem plenior Eiusdem Commentarium de certitudine Mathematicarum disciplinarum in quo de Resolutione, Diffinitione, & Demonstratione necnon de materia et in fine logicae facultatis quamplura continentur...

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Vniversa philosophia de moribus

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Della Grandezza della terra et dell'acqua

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Della Filosofia Naturale

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Della sfera del mondo : divisa in libri quattro, aquali non per uia di traduttione ne à qual si uolglia particolare scrittore obligati ... du nuovo ricorretta & ampliata ; De le stelle di tutte /

Ed. 3a. At head of title: Editione tertia.; Imprint to part 1: In Vinetia. Al segno del pozzo. Con privilegio dello illustrissimo Senato Veneto per Anni XII.; Second part has t.p.: De le stelle fisse : libro uno dove di tutte le XLVIII immagin celesti minutissimamente si tratta ...; Printer and date from colophon to part 2: In Venetia per Nicolò de Bascarini. Nell'anno dinostra salute. MDLII.; Signatures: A-G8,H ; A-P8,Q6; Printer's device on both t.p.'s.; Adams, 1108.; Selected signature pages also available in an electronic version via the internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.gen-vn3007571; Copy in contemporary limp vellum, lettered on front cover, gilt edges, endpapers renewed. Text block on rag paper. A summary of contemporary cosmographical knowledge illustrated with mid-sixteenth century star woodcuts include one of the Corona Australe or Southern Cross identified by Andrea Corsali in 1515. The two treatises usually issued together are among the earliest scientific expositions and popularisations in vernacular Italian. The Sfera del mondo is a survey of contemporary cosmographical knowledge and methodology while the De le stelle fisse is the first published star atlas, containing charts for all but one of Ptolemy's 48 constellations in addition to lists of principal stars plotted. Piccolomini here introduced an innovative and simple system of nomenclature, designating stars by their magnitude of brightness (four levels) through size and the use of lower case Latin letters.De le stelle di tutteDe le stelle fiss

De le Stelle Fisse, title page

Page image from bound volume which has the following bibliographic description: 6 preliminary leaves, 252 pages including diagrams ; 21 cmPiccolomini produced the first star atlas for the general reader.  This early edition marks an important develop in the form in which celestial knowledge was conveyed. The work introduced the system of stellar nomenclature, which with the modification subsequently made by Bayer, remains in use today. Stars are identified by lower case letters for a given constellation, with tables conveniently listing magnitudes from first to fourth. The work proved wildly popular, with twelve editions in Italian and Latin within the 16th century. The De le Stelle Fisse is the companion volume to La Sfera del Mondo containing maps of the different star patterns

La sfera del mondo di M. Alessandro Piccolomini, title page

Page image from bound volume which has the following bibliographic description: 6 preliminary leaves, 252 pages including diagrams ; 21 cmPiccolomini produced the first star atlas for the general reader.  This early edition marks an important develop in the form in which celestial knowledge was conveyed. The work introduced the system of stellar nomenclature, which with the modification subsequently made by Bayer, remains in use today. Stars are identified by lower case letters for a given constellation, with tables conveniently listing magnitudes from first to fourth. The work proved wildly popular, with twelve editions in Italian and Latin within the 16th century.