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Tabulae Mediceae

Lot 109
19.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 1032761
Lot 109 | Tabulae Mediceae
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Vincenzio RENIERI (1606-1647). Tabulae Mediceae secundorum mobilium universales quibus per unicum prosthaphaereseon orbis Canonem Planetarum calculus exhibetur. Florence: Amador Massi and Lorenzo Landi, 1639.

First edition of Renieri’s "Medicean" planetary tables, dedicated Ferdinand II de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. The author, Renieri, was a friend and disciple of Galileo. He worked extensively with Vincenzo Viviani to continue Galileo's observations of Jupiter's moons, but this is his only lifetime publication and unrelated to that project, which had the ultimate goal of perfecting a method for determining longitude at sea. The present work is an update to Kepler's Rudolphine Tables, offering a new method for calculating longitudes. Due to his premature death, the manuscript of his Jupiter observations was never printed and eventually lost. Carli and Favaro 174; Drake, Galileo at Work; Riccardi I.2 348 n 2.

Folio (330 x 235mm). Woodcut diagrams, initials and ornaments (some gatherings browned or spotted; prelims a little frayed in margins). Contemporary Italian vellum, edges red. Provenance: "Tiberii Dellabella" (inscription at foot of title and verso of last leaf, with loosely inserted bifolium laid in containing three pages devoted to a history of leases, rents, and other matters pertaining to the Dellabella family; the final page contains astronomical calculations in the Tabulae Medicae; the latest date given in the document is 1638).
Artist:Vincenzo Renieri (1606 - 1647)
Place of origin:Italy
Auction house category:Medicine & science, Printed books
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