Lot 837: GALILEI, GALILEO--SCHEINER, CHRISTOPHORUS (1573-1650), S.J.

De maculis in sole animadversis, &, tanquam ab Apelle [C. Scheiner], in tabula spectandum in publica luce expositis, Batavi dissertiuncula. [Leiden]: ex officina Plantiniana Raphelengii, 1612, 18, [2]pp., [William R. Shea, 'Galileo, Scheiner, and the interpretation of sunspots' in Isis 61 (1970), 498-519]

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Finé, Oronce (1494-1555). In eos quos de mundi sphaera conscripsit libros, ac in planetarum theoricas, canonum astronomicorum libri II. Paris: M. Vascosan, 1553, ff. 62, illustration: woodcut diagrams

Ibid. De mundi sphaera, sive cosmographia, libri V. ab ipso authore denuo castigati, [etc.]. Paris: ibid, 1555, ff. [6], 60, illustration: woodcut illustrations

Taylor, Brook (1685-1731). Methodus incrementorum directa & inversa. London: typis Pearsonianis, prostant apud G. Innys, 1715, [6], 118, [2]pp., first edition, [Norman 2058], slightly browned

Hypsicles (2nd century BC). AnaforikoV... sive de ascensionibus. Qua graece, quam latine vulgatus per Iacobum Mentelium. Paris: Cramoisy, 1657, [8], 31, [1]pp., first leaf a blank (lacking), illustration: woodcut diagrams

Tarde, Jean. Les Usages du quadrant à l'esguille aymantée... Le second [donne] les usages... comme de mesurer toutes distances... faire la carte & description d'un pays; & toutes les autres operations de la boussole. Paris: Jean Gesselin, 1621, [12], 120pp., illustration: woodcut diagrams and illustrations

6 works in one volume, 4to (205 x 140mm.), binding: eighteenth-century English sprinkled calf, gilt spine, red morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges