APIAN, Peter.- Instrumentum primi mobilis. Nunc primum et inventum et in lucem editum [...]. Accedunt iis Gebri filii Affla Hispalensis astronomi vetustissimi pariter & peritissimi, libri IX de Astronomia [...].
Estimation :
700 / 900
Adjudication :
Invendu
Description
Norimbergae, apud Io. Petreium, 1534. 1 (of 2) parts in 1 vol. in-f° : 40 lvs (some little brown inkstains on 1 lf.). Modern binding : half white parchment, flat spine with title in pen, sprinkled edges. FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION (1st ed. : Ingolstadt, 1533). Illustrated with a woodcut on the title-page depicting an Oriental (ben Aphla ?) and a European (Apian?) holding astronomic instruments, a full-page coat-of-arms of the dedicator, 9 pages of tables of sines and some woodcuts in the text. Our copy contains the 100 propositions dedicated to the study and use of the instrument "primi mobilis" which was "invented" by Apian for calculating sines, but which was in reality an adaptation of the trigonometric grids already known to the Arabs, but lacks the second part (146 pp.), a translation from the Arab of a work about the "geometric elements" by the scholar Geber ben Aphla and an independent subject.
# Van Ortroy 107; # Zinner 1553; # Stillwell, Awakening, 21; # STC German S.37; # Adams A-1292; # not in Machiels.
Édition originale de la traduction illustrée d'1 gravure sur le titre (figurant Apian et ben Aphla ?), d'armoiries à pleine page, d'in texto et avec 9 tables trigonométriques. 1 (sur 2) parties en 1 vol., demi-parchemin blanc moderne.
# Van Ortroy 107; # Zinner 1553; # Stillwell, Awakening, 21; # STC German S.37; # Adams A-1292; # not in Machiels.
Édition originale de la traduction illustrée d'1 gravure sur le titre (figurant Apian et ben Aphla ?), d'armoiries à pleine page, d'in texto et avec 9 tables trigonométriques. 1 (sur 2) parties en 1 vol., demi-parchemin blanc moderne.
