De mundi et sphaerae ac utriusque partium declaratione : cum planetis et variis signis historiatis.

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Author
Hyginus
Date
1517
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Page image from bound volume which has the following bibliographic description: 96 unnumbered pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 22 cm
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Hyginus. "De mundi et sphaerae ac utriusque partium declaratione : cum planetis et variis signis historiatis.." (1517) Rice University: http://hdl.handle.net/1911/78831.
Abstract
The Poeticon Astronomicon is the first printed representation of the constellations, signs of the zodiac, and the planets. The authorship of the book is attributed to Hyginus, who may have been a Latin didactic poet living sometime before 207 A.D. The order of the constellations follow that of Ptolemy’s Almagest indicating that Hyginus may have written in the second century A.D. Published in Venice in 1517 by Melchior Sessa and Pietro Ravani. The binding is 19th century calfskin ruled in gold. This volume contains 48 woodcuts and a full-page woodcut title page.
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Astronomy--Early works to 1800
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Rice University
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