MUNSTER, Sebastian (1489-1552). Compositio Horologiorum, in plano, muro, truncis, anulo, concavo, cylindro et variis quadrantibus, cum signorum zodiaci et diversarum horarum inscriptionibus, Basle: in officina Henrici Petri, 1531, 4°, FIRST LATIN EDITION, title with woodcut illustration of sundials, woodcut illustrations in text, some full-page, Petrus's device on verso of final leaf (title with library perforation affecting two words, accession stamp at foot of A2, light dampstaining at upper margin of title and earlier leaves), modern patterned boards. [Brunet III, 1944; Zinner 1448: "Entwurf von Sonnenuhren verschiedener Art mit den Kurven der Tierkreiszeichen und der verschiedenartigen Stunden"] Provenance: JCL

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MUNSTER, Sebastian (1489-1552). Compositio Horologiorum, in plano, muro, truncis, anulo, concavo, cylindro et variis quadrantibus, cum signorum zodiaci et diversarum horarum inscriptionibus, Basle: in officina Henrici Petri, 1531, 4°, FIRST LATIN EDITION, title with woodcut illustration of sundials, woodcut illustrations in text, some full-page, Petrus's device on verso of final leaf (title with library perforation affecting two words, accession stamp at foot of A2, light dampstaining at upper margin of title and earlier leaves), modern patterned boards. [Brunet III, 1944; Zinner 1448: "Entwurf von Sonnenuhren verschiedener Art mit den Kurven der Tierkreiszeichen und der verschiedenartigen Stunden"] Provenance: JCL

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Münster, best known for his Cosmographia Universalis (1544), was not only a geographer but a mathematician and Hebraist. In this work on dialling, or gnomonics, he reviewed previous literature on this ancient craft, incorporated recent innovations allowing for greater accuracy, and presented the theory, construction, and employment of both sun dials and his own invention of the moon dial. The first German edition was published under the same imprint in 1537.

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