Hieronymi Cardani, In Cl. Ptolemaei De astrorum iudiciis, aut (ut uulgò appellant) Quadripartitae constructionis lib. IIII. commentaria : ab auctore postremùm castigata, et locupletata. His accesserunt, eiusdem Cardani, De septem erraticarum stellarum qualitatibus atq[ue] uiribus liber posthumus antè non uisus. Geniturarum item XII. ad hanc scientiam rectè exercendam obseruatu utilium, exempla. Item, Cunradi Dasypodii, mathematici Argent. scholia et resolutiones seu tabulae in lib. IIII. Apotelesmaticos Cl. Ptolemaei: unà cum aphorismis eorundem librorum. Deniq[ue] breuis explicatio astronomici horologii Argentoratensis, ad ueri & exacti temporis inuestigationem extructi.
- Cardano, Girolamo, 1501-1576.
- Date:
- Anno nostrae salutis recuperatae, M.D. LXXIIX. mense Septembri. [1578]
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Hieronymi Cardani, In Cl. Ptolemaei De astrorvm ivdiciis, avt (vt vvlgò appellant) Qvadripartitae constructionis lib. IIII. commentaria
In Cl. Ptolemaei De astrorum iudiciis, aut (ut uulgò appellant) Quadripartitae constructionis lib. IIII. commentaria
In Cl. Ptolemaei De astrorvm ivdiciis, avt (vt vvlgò appellant) Qvadripartitae constructionis lib. IIII. commentaria
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Basileae : Ex officina Henricpetrina, Anno nostrae salutis recuperatae, M.D. LXXIIX. mense Septembri. [1578]
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16 unnumbered pages, 510 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 601-758 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, columns 765-768, pages 769-838 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations (portrait, diagrams) ; folio
References note
Adams, C682
Notes
Woodcut vignette portrait of the author on t.p.
Includes the text of Ptolemy in Latin.
The horoscope of Christ, present in the first two editions, has been omitted from this one.
Illustrated throughout with woodcut astronomical diagrams.
"Hieronymi Cardani Mediolanensis medici Geniturarum exempla", "Cunradi Dasypodii, mathematici ordinarii Academiae Argentoratensis: Scholia in Claudii Ptolemaei Quatuor libros apotelesmaticos" and "Cunradi Dasypodii, In IIII. libros Cl. Ptolemaei, De astrorum iudiciis, siue apotelesmaticos, resolutiones" each have divisional half-t.p.; the first two begin new registers while the third does not; pagination continuous throughout.
Date of publication from colophon.
Printer's device on verso of final leaf.
Signatures: a⁸ A-Z⁸ (F8 blank) aa-ii⁸ (ii8 blank) Aa-Ff⁸ Gg¹° AA-BB⁸ CC⁶ (CC6 blank) DD² EE-FF⁸ GG⁶ HH⁴ II¹°
Woodcut initials, marginal notes.
Copy 1. From the collection of Dr. Ernst Darmstaedter, no. 313. Leaf DD (half-title) has first few words excised. With 16th century marginal manuscript notes.
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