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Title Sphaera mvndi : sev cosmographia demonstratiua ac facili methodo tradita, in qva totivs mvndi fabrica, vna cvm novis Tychonis, Kepleri, Galilaei, aliorumq; astronomorum adinuentis continetur
Call Number GA7 .B57; Record ID 99265690102001
Date 1620
Description Giuseppe Biancani (1566-1625), an Italian Jesuit astronomer, mathematician, and selenographer, wrote his Sphaera mundi to present Tycho Brahe's cosmology as an alternative to Ptolemy without adopting the condemned views of Copernicus and Galileo. It includes a summary of the discoveries made with the telescope by Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, Galileo, Copernicus, and others. It also included studies on sundials and on the natural phenomenon of the echo, and also included a diagram of the Moon
Creator Biancani, Giuseppe, 1566-1624
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Subject Cosmography -- Early works to 1800; Horology -- Early works to 1800; Echo -- Early works to 1800; Mathematical geography -- Early works to 1800
Type Text
Format application/pdf
Identifier GA7-_B57.pdf
Language lat
Collection Name Rare Books Collection
Holding Institution Rare Books Division, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Rights NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES
Scanning Technician Ellen Moffatt
Digitization Specifications Original scanned with Hasselblad H2D 39 megapixel digital camera and saved as 600 ppi tiffs. Display images created in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 and generated in Adobe Acrobat ProX as multiple page pdf.
ARK ark:/87278/s6961mf1
Setname uum_rbc
ID 311897
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6961mf1

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Collection Name Rare Books Collection
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ID 311808
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6961mf1/311808