Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr - Atlas Novus Coelestis...

<p>Unica edizione di questo superbo atlante celeste in splendida acquerellatura del tempo, capolavoro del Doppelmayr. Si tratta di &laquo;a collection of diagrams with explanations intended as an introduction to the fundamentals of astronomy. Besides star charts and a selenographic map, the Atlas includes diagrams illustrating the planetary systems of Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, and Riccioli; the elliptic theories of Kepler, Boulliau, Seth Ward, and Mercator; the lunar theories of Tycho Brahe, Horrocks and Newton; and Halley's cometary theory&raquo; (<em>DSB </em>IV, 166); <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Ebert </span>6369; <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Graesse </span>II, 427; <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Poggendorff </span>I, 593; <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Sotheran </span>I, 1080.</p>