Lucchini, Domenico ( -1737)

Modo di formare l'orologio astronomico solare nel piano orizontale, etc. With short extracts, notes and fragments on sundials. Illustrated with numerous pen-drawn figures and diagrams. These oddments appear to be extracted from, or based on the author's 'Trattenimenti matematici i quali comprendono tavole orarie per gli orologi a sole orizzontale verticale ...' Rome. 1732. His name appears on the verso of the leaf headed 'Opera per trovare la Meridiana ne i tre giorni de gli due mesi dell Equinozi', which states that 'Questa operazione e stata desunta dal Libro Orografico di Domenico Luchini Cap IV stampato in Roma l'anno 1730'.

c. 1735

1 volume 54 ll. folio & 4to. v.s. Unbound.

Purchased 1928.

D. Lucchini is entered in Vol. IV of Rotermund's 'Fortsetzung' to Jöcher's 'Gelehrten Lexicon'.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).