De Astronomica Specula Domestica et Organico Apparatu Astonomico libri duo
Author(s) | Giovanni Jacopo de Marinoni | ||
Editor | Leopold Johann Kaliwoda | Place | Viennae |
Year | 1746 | Pages | 210+2 errata corrige |
Measure | 26x36 (cm) | Illustration | 61 incisioni n.t. |
Binding | mz. pelle titoli in oro al dorso | Conservazione | |
Language | Weight | 3100 (gr) | |
ISBN | N/D | EAN-13 | N/D |
not available
Reginae dicati Joanne Jacobo Marinonio patricio utinensi, Caesareo antehac, nunc Regio Mathematico & Consiliario.
Illustrato da 43 tavv. f.t. ripiegate, 17 figure n.t.(di cui 8 a piena pagina), una piantina di Vienna al tit. sorretta da 2 puttini. Privo di anteporta. Titolo in rosso e nero e dedica a Maria Teresa d'Austria. Mezza pelle, titoli in oro al dorso. Segni d'uso, ottimo e raro esemplare.
Prima edizione dell'opera del Marinoni (1676-1755), matematico e astronomo alla Corte Imperiale d'Austria.
First edition of this luxuriously printed and illustrated work, which describes and illustrated the astronomical instruments in the private observatory of G.J. Marinoni, mathematician and astronomer to the Imperial Court of Austria and geodetic surveyor. Like the private observatories of Tycho Brahe and Hevelius in the two preceding centuries, Marinoni's observatory was one of the most beautiful and best equipped in Europe in his time. He built his own instruments and those illustrated here include quadrants, telescopes, micrometers, an improved Graham pendulum, and a camera obscura. Marinoni left all the instruments to the Empress Maria Theresa, to whom he dedicated this work. (FOS.)
Recommended books...