ASTRONOMIA COMPARATIVA in qua præcipua Planetarum phœnomena ex observationibus deducta, è Sole, Mercurio, Venere et Luna exhibentur - UC Berkeley GeoData
ASTRONOMIA COMPARATIVA in qua præcipua Planetarum phœnomena ex observationibus deducta, è Sole, Mercurio, Venere et Luna exhibentur
'29' (top right, outside border). California as a large, unlabeled island with rounded northern coastline on double hemisphere map entitled: Facies orbis antiqui è Luna. Facies orbis novi è Luna, Fig.4. (bottom left of sheet). Nine figures, with columnar text comprise the sheet. “Fig.i”, at center, entitled: De planetarum primariorum motibus irregularibus ex illorum quolibet apparentibus, dominates the page with its diagram of planetary orbits. The other figures are entitled: Fig.2. Hypothesis Tÿchonica, posito oculo in Mercurio adsensum imobili; Fig.3. Hypothesis Tychonica, seciquam è Venere observatoris oculus imobilis ponitur; Fig.5. Terra è Luna peryarias Phases, luna ribus similes apparens; Fig.6. E Mercurio; Fig.7. E Venere; Fig.8. Magnitudo Solis è Saturno in distatia media apparens; Fig.9. Diameter Solis è Joye in distantia media apparens. Issued in: Atlas coelestis in quo mundus spectabilis et in eodem stellarum omnium phoenomena notabilia, circa ipsarum lumen, figuram, faciem, motum, eclipses, occultationes transitus, magnitudines distantias, aliaque secundum Nic. Copernici et ex parte Tychonis de Brahe Hipothesin ... . -- Norimbergæ, Sumptibus Heredum Homannianorum, A. 1742. a IOH. GAB: DOPPELMAIERO Acad. Imper. Leopoldino-Carolinæ Nat. Curios. Regiarumque Societatum Britañicæ et Borussicæ Sodali, ut et Mathem. Prof Publ. Sumtibus Heredum Homañianorum cum P.S.C.M. Jonathan Potter.
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