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BRAHE, Tycho (1546-1601)

Lot 124
12.07.2023 00:00UTC +00:00
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 124 | BRAHE, Tycho (1546-1601)
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BRAHE, Tycho (1546-1601)

Astronomiae instauratae progymnasmata. Quorum haec prima pars de restitutione motuum solis et lunae stellarumque innerantium tractat. Et praetereá de adamiranda nova stella anno 1572 exortâ luculenter agit. Ed. Johannes Kepler. Uraniborg and Prague: 1602.

First edition of this important and rare work which was ‘the foundation on which Kepler, and later Newton, built their astronomical systems’ (Sparrow). This posthumously published work includes the Danish astronomer's numerous observations made from the island of Hven, including the new star of 1572, as well as revisions of the solar and lunar theories and a detailed star catalogue that would eventually result in Kepler's Tabulae Rudolphinae. The work was finished after the author’s death by Kepler who added an appendix and index. Most of the sheets had been printed on Tycho's private press at his observatory at Uranienborg on the island of Hven. Houzeau-Lancaster 2700; Sparrow, Milestones of Science 30.



Quarto (230 x 168mm). Woodcut illustrations and diagrams, some full-page, (some small flaws, mostly repaired, occasionally affecting text, some small repairs to margins, some leaves browned or slightly stained). 20th-century green crushed morocco by P. Gozzi, Modena, spine in compartments with raised bands gilt, elaborately gilt borders, green silk endleaves, preserved in a green morocco folding box.





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Artist:Tycho Brahe (1546 - 1601)
Place of origin:Western Europe, Germany, Europe
Auction house category:Printed books
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