In Ptolemaei Magnam compositionem, quam Almagestum vocant, libri tredecim / conscripti à Ioanne Regiomontano mathematico clarissimo. In quibus vniuersa doctrina de coelestibus motibus, magnitudinibus, eclipsibus &c. in epitomen redacta, proponitur.

Almagest. Latin

Noribergae : Apud Ioannem Montanum, & Vlricum Neuberum, Anno M. D. L. [1550]

230 unnumbered pages : illustrations (woodcut) ; folio (33 cm)

Adams, R284.

Grässe, IV, p. 588.

BM STC German, 1455-1600, p. 718.

BN, v. 147, column 972.

Hoffmann, S.F.W. Bibliographisches Lexicon der gesammten Litt. der Griechen (2. Aufl.), III, p. 321.

The Epitoma was also the work of Georg von Peurbach. Cf. Dict. scientific biog., vol. 15, p. 474-475.

An earlier edition was published in Venice, 1496, under title: Epytoma Ioan[n]is de Mo[n]te Regio in Almagestu[m] Ptolomei.

Illustrations are diagrams in outer margins of text.

Copy 1. Supplier/Donor: Med. Soc. Lond. Bound in 18th century marbled papers, calf spine and corners, leather label lettered: 'Ptolomaeus. De coelestibus motibus &c. 1550.' This book was formerly part of the collection of the Medical Society of London, which was deposited for safekeeping in the Wellcome Library in 1964. It was eventually purchased by the Wellcome Trust in 1984, with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and other charities.