BOOK
Title:
Discovrs novveav provvant la pluralité des mondes: que les astres sont des terres habitées, & la terre vne estoile, qu'elle est hors du centre du monde dans le troisiesme ciel, & se tourne deuant le soleil qui est fixe, & autres choses tres-curieuses
Creator:
Borel, Pierre, 1620?-1671
Publication:
Genéve, 1657.
Notes:
Readex Microprint edition.
BOOK
Title:
Petri Gassendi De motv impresso a motore translato: epistolae dvae : in qvibvs aliqvot praecipvae tum de motu vniuersè, tum speciatim de motu terrae attributo difficultates explicantur
Creator:
Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655
Publication:
Apud L. de Hevqveville, Parisiis, 1642.
Notes:
Readex Microprint edition. Title vignette.
Extent:
[4] p.., 159 p. : diagr.
BOOK
Title:
Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles: and made easy to those who have not studied mathematics
Creator:
Ferguson, James, 1710-1776
Publication:
Printed for and sold by the Author, London, 1756.
Notes:
Readex Microprint edition. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Extent:
Fold. pl., [8] p., 267 p., [5] p. : Fold. pls., tables interleaved.
BOOK
Title:
Dialogue concerning the two chief world systems, Ptolemaic & Copernican
Alt. Title:
Dialogo dei massimi sistemi. English
Creators:
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 | Drake, Stillman. | Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955
Publication:
University of California Press, Berkeley, 1962.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Extent:
xxvii, 505 p. : ill., facsims., port. ; 21 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Nicolai Copernici Torinensis. Astronomia instavrata, libris sex comprehensa, qui De revolutionibus orbium cælestium inscribuntur
Alt. Title:
De revolutionibus orbium caelestium
Creators:
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543 | Mulerius, Nicolaus, 1564-1630
Publication:
excudebat Wilhelmus Iansonius, sub Solari aureo, Amstelrodami, 1617.
Notes:
Title vignette (Publisher's device) Contains many manuscript notes.
Extent:
[22], 487 p. : tables, diagrs. ; 24 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Novae coelestivm orbivm theoricae congruentes cum obseruationibus N. Copernici
Creator:
Magini, Giovanni Antonio, 1555-1617
Publication:
Ex officina Damiani Zenarij, Venetiis, 1589.
Extent:
[28] p., 115 leaves : ill. ; 25 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Philolai, sive dissertationis de vero systemate mvndi, libri iv
Creator:
Boulliau, Ismael, 1605-1694
Publication:
Apud Guil. & Iohannem Blaeu, Amsterdami, 1639.
Notes:
Ascribed to Boulliau, Cf. Grässe. Title vignette.
Extent:
[4], 159 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Vranoscopia, seu, De coelo: in qua vniversa coelorum doctrina clarè dilucidè & breuiter traditur : peregrine plurime de caeli animatione,simplicitate, fluiditate, grauitate, numero, influentiis occultis, lunae maculis, stellarum à terra distantiis
Creator:
Baranzano, Giovanni Antonio, 1590-1622
Publication:
Apud Petrum & Iacobum Chouët, Geneve], 1617.
Notes:
Title within woodcut architectural border, woodcut printer's device on t.p. of pt. 1, many woodcut ill. in text. The folded plates consist of 1 woodcut ill. and 2 letterpress tables. Includes indexes. "Nova de motv terræ Copernicæo ivxta svmmi pontificis mentem disputatio. Authore ... Redempto Baranzano": 29, [1] p. at end.
Extent:
2 pts. in 1 v. , [3] folded leaves of plates : ill., diagrs., tables ; 24 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Hypotyposes orbium coelestium: quas appellant theoricas planetarum: congruentes cum tabulis Alphonsinis & Copernici, seu etiam tabulis Prutenicis: in vsum Scholarum publicatæ
Creators:
Peucer, Kaspar, 1525-1602 | Reinhold, Erasmus, 1511-1553 | Dasypodius, Conrad, 1532-1600
Publication:
Excudebat Theodosius Rihelius, Argentorati, [1568]
Notes:
Includes index. Although Dasypodius suggestes that Erasmus Reinhold may have been the author of this anonymous work it was acutally written by Kaspar Peucer and later published under his name, Wittenberg, 1571, with title: Hypotheses astronomicae, seu Theoricae planetarum, ex Ptolemaei ... doctrina, ad observationes ... Copernici ... acommodatae. It was also published anonymously, Köln, 1573, under title: Absolutissimae orbium coelestium Hypotyposes. "Epistola Dedicatoria" signed: Cunradus Dasypodius, and dated 1568.
Extent:
[16], 354 [i.e. 534], [7] p. : diagrs. ; 17 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Coeli siderum in eo errantium observationes Hassiacae
Creators:
Snell, Willebrod, 1591-1626 | WilhelmIV, Landgrave of Hesse, 1532-1592 | Muller, JohannesRegiomontanus, 1436-1476 | Walther, Bernard, 1430-1504 | Brahe, Tycho, 1546-1601
Publication:
Apud Iustvm Colstervm, Lvgdvni Batavorvm, 1618.
Extent:
2 pts. in 1 v. : diagrs., tables ; 19 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Ismaelis Bvllialdi Astronomia philolaica: opvs novvm, in quo motus planetarum per nouam ac veram hypothesim demonstrantur
Creator:
Boulliau, Ismael, 1605-1694
Publication:
Sumptibus Simeonis Piget, Parisiis, 1645.
Notes:
"Tabvl philolaica": p. 1-232. Readex Microprint edition.
Extent:
22 p., [4] p., 469 p., [2] p., 232 p. : Diagrs., tables.
BOOK
Title:
Uncentering the Earth: Copernicus and The revolutions of the heavenly spheres
Creator:
Vollmann, William T.
Publication:
Norton, New York, [c2006]
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Extent:
295 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Conversations on the plurality of worlds
Alt. Title:
Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes. English
Creator:
Fontenelle, (Bernard Le Bovier)M. de, 1657-1757
Publication:
Printed for Peter Wilson, London, 1761.
Notes:
Translation of: Entretiens sur la pluralite des mondes. Includes indexes. Readex Microprint edition.
Extent:
[4] p., xx p., 226 p., IV fold. pls., [6] p.
BOOK
Alt. Title:
Dialogo dei massimi sistemi
Creators:
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 | Della Bella, Stefano, 1610-1664
Publication:
Per Gio: Batista Landini, Fiorenza, 1632.
Notes:
Includes index. Added engraved title page signed: Stefan Della Bella F. Suppressed by the Inquisition in 1633.
Extent:
[8], 458, [32] p. : ill., front. ; 22 cm.
PAMPHLET
Title:
An Account of the Eidouranion, or transparent orrery
Creator:
Walker, A. (Adam), 1730 or 31-1821
Publication:
Printed for the author, London, 1782.
Extent:
22 p., [2] . ; 17 cm (8vo)
BOOK
Title:
Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes
Creator:
Fontenelle, (Bernard Le Bovier)M. de, 1657-1757
Publication:
C. Blageart, Paris, 1686.
Notes:
Irregular paging. Errors in pagination: p.111, 136, 160, 163, 230, 265, 295, 301 incorrectly numbered 11, 26, 260, 16, 30, 263, 299, 303; no.100, 101, 275, 276 repeated; no.281-282 omitted. Readex Microprint edition.
Extent:
[14] p. ., fold. pl., 359 [i.e. 361] p.
BOOK
Title:
Mathematical collections and translations in two parts: from the original copies of Galileus, and other famous modern authors
Creators:
Salusbury, Thomas. | López de Zúñiga, Diego, d. 1530 | Foscarini, Paolo Antonio, 1580-1616 | Corsini, Ottavio, 1592-1642 | Castelli, Benedetto, 1577-1644 | Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 | Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630
Publication:
Printed by William Leybourn, for George Sawbridge, London, 1667.
Notes:
On title page of pt. 2 the words "The second tome. The second part" should read "The first tome. The second part." This work was first published in two volumes, 1661-1665. It is rarely found complete, as most of the copies of vol. 2 were destroyed in the great fire of London. The very rare 1667 reprint consists of v. 1, pts. 1 & 2 of the original sheets with an added title-page and new contents leaf. Readex Microprint edition. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Extent:
2 pts. in 1 v. (pt.1: [9] p , 503 p., [24] p.; pt.2: [7] p , 118 p., [5] p.)
