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Sacrobosco IoannesMareMagnum

Sfera di Gio. Sacro Bosco tradotta, e dichiarata da don Francesco Pifferi Sansavino monaco Camaldolese e matematico nello studio di Siena. Misurato Intronato Al serenissimo don Cosimo Medici gran principe di Toscana, con nuove aggiunte di molte cose nota

MENELAO di Alessandria MENELAUS ALEXANDRINUS - HALLEY, EdmondMareMagnum

Menelai Sphaericorum libri III. Quos olim, collatis mss. Hebraeis & Arabicis, typis exprimendos curavit vir Cl. Ed. Halleius ... Praefationem addidit G. Costard

In -8°, pp. (2), 112; mezza pergamena. Prima edizione in volume del trattato di Menelao Alessandrino (I sec. d.C.), considerato il primo trattato di trigonometria sferica che si conosca, e che contiene anche la dimostrazione del teorema ancor oggi noto come Teorema di Menelao. Una edizione precedente dei tre libri compare anche nell’insieme di testi curato da Francesco Maurolico, che tradusse Teodosio, Euclide, Autolico e appunto Menelao in un suo lavoro dedicato agli studi della sfera (Messina, 1558). Nel 1644 Mersenne ripubblica gli “Sphaericorum libri”, sempre in un volume che comprende altri scritti (“Universae geometriae...”, Parigi, Bertier: il volume è citato da Leopardi nella sua “Storia dell’astronomia”), e sulla base del volume precedentemente citato. La presente edizione era stata curata, su fonti non coincidenti con le edizioni rammentate, dal celebre astronomo Edmund Halley per la stampa universitaria oxfordiana, nel 1712. Ma l’edizione del ’12, stampata solo parzialmente, non fu completata se non nel ’58 come postuma, quando fu chiesto a George Costard e James Bradley, entrambi astronomi a Oxford di curare la pubblicazione del lavoro. Mancano, in questa copia, le otto pagine di prefazione di Costard, numerate a parte, mentre il trattato in sé è completo: la copia è perfettamente conforme a quella conservata nella biblioteca bodleiana di Oxford. Una copia, sempre conforme a questa, e qualificata come quella del 1713-14 è stata venduta nel 2005 da Sotheby’s, asta Macclesfield. First edition in a volume of the Menelaus Alexandrinus work, considered the first spheric trigonometry essay ever known, also containing the demonstration of the theorem still known after Menelaus name. An earlier edition of the three books was also published in a collection of texts edited by Francesco Maurolico, who translated Theodosius, Euclides, Autholicus and Menelaus in a work dedicated to sphere studies (Messina, 1558). In 1644 Mersenne republish the “Sphaericorum libri”, always in a volume including more works (“Universae geometriae…”, Paris, Bertier), based on the Maurolico’s work. The Oxford edition was edited, based on different sources than the Maurolico ones, by the famous astronomer Edmund Halley, in 1712. But that edition was never published, and it was only partially printed in 1713-14. Only in 1758 the book was completed by George Costard and James Bradley, both Oxford’s astronomers. In the present copy the eight introduction pages of Costard are missing, while the essay is complete: the copy is identical to the one kept by the Bodleian Library of Oxford. A copy, still similar to this one and qualified as the 1713-14’s one, was sold in 2005, at Sotheby’s, Macclesfield auction.

Libreria Antonio Pettini · Roma, IT1 800,00 €

Otto HAHN, Fritz STRASSMANN:MareMagnum

Abhandlungen der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Jahrgang 1939. Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klasse. Nr. 12. ÜBER DAS ZERPLATZEN DES URANKERNES DURCH LANGSAME NEUTRONEN. With 3 cliché text illustrations after ink drawings and 3 tables.

First offprint in the original wrappers of this „fundamental paper on nuclear fission which eventually lead to the creation of the atomic bomb.“ (Dibner) – Contents, Edition: The German radio and nuclear chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Straßmann "bombarding uranium with neutrons (as indicated by Fermi in the mid-1930s), found that treating the bombarded uranium with barium resulted in some strongly radioactive material. By late 1938 they suspected that uranium fission had occurred.“ These epochal findings had been presented by Hahn and Straßmann to the Prussian Academy on May 25th 1939. Their paper indicates in detail „fission of the uranium nucleus into two parts of about equal size with the release of much energy.“ – The publication date for the present offprint is stated „18th Sept. 1939“ in the colophon (not numbered p. 2). Known are also separate printings in the same typeset with wrappers on orange stock quoting „Einzelausgabe“ (separate edition) and the price information („RM 1,50“) on title page, and with a different list of „Sonderausgaben“ (separate printings) published by the Prussian Academy between 1927 and 1939 at rear cover. – Alongside the aforementioned an Austrian woman scientist of Jewish descent, Lise Meitner, colleague of the authors at the Berlin Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institute of Chemistry for decades, also contributed heavily to their findings. Meitner had to flee Nazi Germany in 1938 but continued her research in exile, e.g. in Copenhagen, where she worked in the laboratory of Niels Bohr. Through Bohr and Fermi this nuclear energy was to become a reality in the atomic pile and the bomb blasts of 1945 as well as in the nuclear power stations of the following decades. Hahn received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1944, and together with Meitner and Strassmann, the Fermi award in 1966.“ (All quotes Dibner). If the 1st paper from 1939 contains the first comprehensive description of this core nuclear achievement, the following two corresponding papers published by Hahn and Straßmann with support by chemist Hans Götte during the Second World War in 1942 („Einiges über die experimentelle Entwirrung der bei der Spaltung des Urans auftretenden Elemente und Atomarten.“) and 1944 („Die chemische Abscheidung der bei der Spaltung des Urans entstehenden Elemente und Atomarten.“) describe experiments to identify the fission fragments. - Condition: Cover with some finger stains and traces of water stains, otherwise well preserved copy indeed. - Reference: Dibner, Heralds of Science, 168; Norman 963 (paper 1 only); Poggendorff VIIa/2, 355; Scheld 191.

Wonderland on Paper · Wien, AT1 800,00 €

Johannes SACROBOSCO; Reinhold ERASMUS (d. Ä.); Philipp MELANCHTHON (Pref.):MareMagnum

IOHANNIS / DE SACRO BU- /STO LIBELLUS DE / SPHAERA. // ACCESSIT EIVSDEM AUVTORIS COMVTVS EC- /clesiasticus, Et alia quædam in / studiosorum gratiam / edita. // CVM PRÆFATIONE / Philippi Melanthonis. And: LIBELLUS / IONANNIS DE SACRO / BUSTO, de Anni ratione, seu ut / uocatur uulgo, Computus / Ecclesiasticus. // CUM PRAEFATIONE / Philippi Melanthonis. And: THEMATA / QVÆ CONTINENT / METHODICAM TRACTA- / tionem de Horizonte rationali et sensibili (...) 3 parts in 1 volume. With a woodcut sperical globe on the title page, 72 woodcut text illustrations depicting (speric) globes and other astronomical, astrological, geometrical etc. elements, of which 3 with volvelles (not tipped-in here however), 3 woodcut initials and 4 tables, whereof 2 with multiple fold.

Rare and profusely illustrated Wittenberg edition of this most important compendium of mediaeval astronomy. – Contents: Seminal work in two parts ("Libellus de sphaera" and the appended handbook on chronology "Computus ecclesiasticus") by Joannes de Sacrobosco (c. 1195-1256), professor of astronomy at Paris University, a treatise considered the authoritative astronomical textbook until well into the 17th century. “Sacrobosco’s Sphaera, written in Paris around 1220, enjoyed a long popularity as the leading introduction to spherical astronomy. First printed in 1472, it went through at least a score of editions in the 15th cent. And something over 100 in the 16th cent. Publishing Sacrobosco entered a new and different phase in Wittenberg in 1531. Prior to that year all the editions were folio or quarto, often quite expensive. In 1531 the Lutheran University of Wittenberg apparently sponsored a version cheap enough to become a required textbook for the astronomy course. It is fully illustrated with didactic figures, and comes with a preface in praise of astronomy by Philipp Melanchthon. In 1538 a revised revision appeared: for the first time three of the diagrams incorporated moving parts. This proved to be such a popular feature that virtually every octavo Sacrobosco from the 1540’s on – regardless where printed – included these same identical volvelles." (Gingerich). Also included in present 1561 edition, printed by the famous protestant printer Johann Krafft in Wittenberg, are two folded tables (17,5:23 cm 15,2:24,5 cm), „Tabula continens ingrissum solis“ and „Tabula continens gradus eclipticae“. – Provenance: Handwritten short biography of printer Krafft signed, located and dated „Carl Fried Teschen Böhmen 1888“ as well as owner's stamp „Carl Fried“ on fly leaf recto. – Condition: Volvelles at B7r, B8r and D5v not tipped-in (as unfortunately much too often), first folded table with faults at lower margin affecting the print, title page stained, some pages slightly finger-stained and foxy, several old ink marginals (text and calculations) from different hands, dating probably from 16th and 17th century, front paste-down with printed title lable from around 1900, book-block marginally cut to fit the binding, a wide-margined however. – Rarity: Altough the moveable parts are missing, present copy is of rare state, for it comes with the prefaces of Melanchthon, which were frequently suppressed by Catholic censors, and also with the undamaged title page, on which Melanchthon's name was often blackened. This copy also includes the two often lacking blanks at the end, i.e. has 136 leaves instead of only 134. VD16 locates 6 copies of present 1561 edition at Budapest (Szécheny), Dresden (SLUB), Freiburg/Breisgau (UB), Göttingen (SUB), Munich (BSB) and Wolfenbüttel (HAB). – Reference: VD16 J 730; Zinner 2271; Houzeau-Lancaster 1653; O. Gingerich: »Sacrobosco as a textbook«, in: History of Astronomy XIX (1988), p. 269-273.

Wonderland on Paper · Wien, AT1 600,00 €

BENETTI [DE BENETTI] [DA BEINETTE] GeremiaMareMagnum

Chronologia et critica historiae profanae et sacrae in tomos VI tributa ubi de veterum populorum et urbium mensibus, annis, periodis, cyclis, et epochis. Miscellanea item multa de variarum gentium ubique. Originibus, antiquitatibus, scripturis, transmigrationibus, sacerdotibus, templis, aedituis, asylis, diis, ritibus, festis, ludis, magistratibus, regibus, legibus, rebuspublicis, &c. Auctore F. Hieronimo A Benettis cappuccino. Pars I Tomus I ( - VI) pro adparatu...

6 voll. in 8o, pp. XXXII + 582; VIII + 588; VIII + 546; VIII + 582; VIII + 516; VIII + 664. Piena pergamena coeva. rara edizione originale di questa ponderosa opera che analizza la computazione del tempo presso tutti i popoli in tutti i tempi. Nella prima parte si tratta degli elemnti della cronologia, degli orologi, del modo in cui vengono scritti, della settimana e del sabato. Nella seconda parte dei prolegomeni viene esposto il modo di computare i mesi presso gli ebrei, i samaritani, bailonesi, caldei, medii, persiani, parti, armeni, georgiani, sufali, esseni, egiziani, copti, etiopici, abissini, congolesi, ambondi, angolani, indiani, malabari, coromandeli, indostani, butani, tibetani, nepalesi, tangutani, siamesi, cambaiensi, malacensi, abitanti di Ceylon, peguani, arachesi, cinesi, abitanti del Tonchino e della Concincina, giaponesi, coracensi, hainaniensi, abitanti di formosa, americani, messicani, peruviani, saraceni, arabi, tartiri, mongoli, turchi, siriani, curdi, sirocaldei, eliopolitani, persomedi, sirofenici, sirocappadoci, leucosiriai, siromacedoni, seleucensi, siroelleni, siromacedoni, antiocheni, seleucensi, laodiceni, apamensi, gazensi, abitanti di Palmira, tiriori, sidoni, aradiori, tripolitani, pontici, laodiceni, Frigi, Cappadoci, pisidi, bitini, cretesi, gortini, lici, ciprioti, jonii, abitanti di smirne, di Efeso e di Pergamo, magnesii, ateniesi, delii, ambraciotari, elei, parii, corinzi, achei, corciresi, parti, sicioni, delfici, abitanti dell'Elide, focesi, locresi, megaresi, egenitani, arcadi, abitanti della Laconia, beoti, celti, germani, britanni, galli, esperi, iberici, etruschi, latini, italici... Nello stesso modo sono poi presi in esame i modi di computare i cicli degli anni presso tutti i popoli elencati e presso molti altri ancora. Trattato di infinita erudizione in cui l'Autore fa riferimento a centinaia di autori classici e non, compresi filosofi come Hobbes, matematici come Newton, Cassini... Da notare anche l'uso di vari caratteri tipografici per la realizzazione di quest'opera monumentale sulla computazione del tempo e il continuo riferimento a congiunture astronomiche e astrologiche. L'A., Geremia, fu un frate cappuccino piemontese originario di Beinette (cfr. Arsenio da Casorate, Chi sono i cappuccini? Sintesi storica dalle origini ai nostri giorni, p. 178; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto...).

Libreria Antiquaria Coenobium · Asti, IT1 500,00 €