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VINCENT WING (1619-68)
Astronomia Britannica. London: John Macock for George Sawbridge, 1669. Engraved author portrait frontispiece by Cross, engraved figure of an armillary sphere, woodcut diagrams. Houzeau & Lancaster 9232; Wing W-2986. [Bound with:]
Paul GUILDIN (1577-1643). De centro gravitatis trium specierum quantitatis continuae, part one only. Vienna: Gregorius Gelbhaar, 1635. Half-title, engraved title vignette, numerous woodcut diagrams, one full-page woodcut diagram inserted after p.114, one folding engraved plate.
Two works bound in one volume, 2° (295 x 191mm). (Small repair to Wing title, some spotting.) 18th-century German calf, gilt spine, red speckled edges, floral gilt index tabs (rubbed, spine label missing). Provenance: Ingolstadt, monastery of Augustinian Hermits (inscription from Father Bonifacius to Father Joannes Baptista Tenk, Ingolstadt 1715; a few 18th-century annotations).
FIRST EDITIONS OF BOTH WORKS. Wing's was 'the most significant English astronomical work of its time' (ODNB); published posthumously, 'Wing's celestial mechanics contained a mixture of Cartesian and Keplerian components, with a rotating sun and celestial vortex pushing the planets around in their orbits' (DSB XIV, p.446). In the first volume of Guldin's main work, bound here at an early date for the Ingolstadt Augustinian Hermits, Guldin determined the centers of gravity of plane recilinear and curvilinear figures and of solids; it also contains his reply to Niccolò Cabeo's attack published in Philosophia magnetica (see lot 75).
Astronomia Britannica. London: John Macock for George Sawbridge, 1669. Engraved author portrait frontispiece by Cross, engraved figure of an armillary sphere, woodcut diagrams. Houzeau & Lancaster 9232; Wing W-2986. [Bound with:]
Paul GUILDIN (1577-1643). De centro gravitatis trium specierum quantitatis continuae, part one only. Vienna: Gregorius Gelbhaar, 1635. Half-title, engraved title vignette, numerous woodcut diagrams, one full-page woodcut diagram inserted after p.114, one folding engraved plate.
Two works bound in one volume, 2° (295 x 191mm). (Small repair to Wing title, some spotting.) 18th-century German calf, gilt spine, red speckled edges, floral gilt index tabs (rubbed, spine label missing). Provenance: Ingolstadt, monastery of Augustinian Hermits (inscription from Father Bonifacius to Father Joannes Baptista Tenk, Ingolstadt 1715; a few 18th-century annotations).
FIRST EDITIONS OF BOTH WORKS. Wing's was 'the most significant English astronomical work of its time' (ODNB); published posthumously, 'Wing's celestial mechanics contained a mixture of Cartesian and Keplerian components, with a rotating sun and celestial vortex pushing the planets around in their orbits' (DSB XIV, p.446). In the first volume of Guldin's main work, bound here at an early date for the Ingolstadt Augustinian Hermits, Guldin determined the centers of gravity of plane recilinear and curvilinear figures and of solids; it also contains his reply to Niccolò Cabeo's attack published in Philosophia magnetica (see lot 75).
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