Philippus Lansbergi, Tabulae Motuum Coelestium Perpetuae

First edition of Lansbergen's important astronomical tables. Lansbergen could not, however, accept Johannes Kepler's elliptical orbits, upon which Kepler had based his own 'Rudolphine Tables' published five years earlier.

Type of object:

Book & Prints

Time period:

Denemarken & Belgie, Gouden eeuw Nederland

Place:

Middelburg

Date:

1632

Maker / Author:

Philippus Lansberg(i)us

Publisher / Printer:

Zacharias Romanus

Dimensions:

folio

Material:

Contempory Vellum woodcut illustrations

Graduation:

none

Inscription:

Lansbergi Tabulae Motuum

Provenance:

Netherlands Original from Antwerp

References:

n/a

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Description

Lansbergen (Phillipus van) Tabulae motuum coelestium perpetuae, first edition, 3 parts in 1, engraved title by Daniel van den Bremden after Adriaen van den Venne with allegorical representations of the astronomers Aristarchus, Hipparchus, Ptolemaeus, Alfonso, Brahe, Albategnius, Copernicus and the author, engraved portrait of the author by Willem Deff (mounted on front paste-down and slightly wormed at inner margin), folding table, woodcut illustrations, woodcut printer's device above colophon, half-title bound after engraved title, contemporary vellum, spine lettered in manuscript, a little soiled