Cosmographia, sive descriptio vniversi orbis / auctoribus Petro Apiano, et Gemma Frisio, mathematicorum insignium ; cuius huic editioni additus est de Astrolabo catholico libellus, nunc primum à Martino Euerartho in epitomen contractus ; caetera vide pagina quinta ...jam demum integritati suae restituta. Adjecti sunt alii, tum Gemmae Frisii, tum aliorum auctorum ejus argumenti tractatus ac libelli varii.
- Apian, Peter, 1495-1552.
- Date:
- 1584
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Antverpiae : Ex officina Arnoldi Coninx [J. Withagius for J. Bellerus], 1584.
Physical description
16 unnumbered pages, 478 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : woodcuts, diagrams (3 with movable dials), illustrations, map ; (4to)
Contributors
- Apian, Peter, 1495-1552.
- Gemma, Frisius, 1508-1555. Libellus de locorum describendorum ratione.
- Gemma, Frisius, 1508-1555. Usus annuli astronomici.
- Gemma, Frisius, 1508-1555. De usu globi.
- Gemma, Frisius, 1508-1555. De radio astronomico et geometrico liber.
- Gemma, Frisius, 1508-1555. De astrolabo catholico liber.
- López de Gómara, Francisco, 1511-1564. Historia general de las Indias. Latin.
- Girava, Gerónimo, -1556. Cosmographia y historia. Latin.
- Schöner, Johann, 1477-1547. Coelestis globi compositio.
- Peurbach, Georg von, 1423-1461. Tabula gnomonica.
- Spangenberg, Johann. Fabrica baculi astronomici.
- Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552. De principiis geometriae.
- Gemma, Cornelius, 1535-1579. Carmen describendorum ratione.
- Beller, Jean, 1526-1595.
- Everaerts, Marten.
Notes
Signatures: [par.]⁴ 2*⁴ A-I⁴ K1 L-3M⁴ 3N⁶
Colophon: Typis Joan. Withagii
Dedication by Jean Beller has date 1583
Signature K (p. 73-81) reserved for map of the world. Nos. 426-429 omitted in pagination; other errors in numbering
Revolving diagrams on p. 20, 25, 65 and 189. Parts have been supplied
Another issue of the Antwerp ed. of 1584 by J. Beller, with different t.p. and changes in matter preceding text
For full description see Ortroy, Bibliographie de l'oeuvre de Pierre Apian. 1902. No. 61
"Situs ac descriptio Indiarum, seu noui orbis, desumpta ex generali Indiarum historia, hispanico idiomate scripta à D. Francisco Lopez de Gomara. [Versionem latinam curavit I. Bellerus]": p. 160-166
"Situs et descriptio Indiarum, siue orbis noui, ex Cosmographia D. Hieronymi Girauae Tarraconensis. [Versionem latinam curavit I. Bellerus]": p. 167-187
"Libellus de locorum describendorum ratione ... per Gemmam Frisium": p. 193-208
"Vsus annuli astronomici, Gemma Frisio ... auctore": p. 209-222
"Gemmae Frisij ... De vsu globi, ab eodem editi": p. 223-248
"Coelestis globi compositio, J.S. [i.e. Joanne Schonero] auctore": p. 249-281
"Gemmae Frisij ... De radio astronomico [et] geometrico liber ... [cum] Tabula gnomonica Georgij Peurbachij": p. 282-347
"Fabrica baculi astronomici, vulgo Baculi Iacobi Ioan. Span. auctore": p. 348-349
"Brevis tractatus de baculo astronomico, ex lib. I. S.M. [i.e. Sebastiani Munsteri] de principiis geometriae": p. 350-353
"Gemmae Frisij ... De astrolabo catholico liber ": p. 354-479
"Carmen panegyricum Cornelij Gemmae, in obitum patris Gemmae Frisij": 1 leaf at end.
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