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FARGHANI, Ah?mad Ibn Muh?ammad al- (c.800-870). Astronomorum peritissimi compendium. Paris: Christian Wechel, 1546.
Small 8° (167 x 109mm). Printer’s device on title and repeated on verso of final leaf, woodcut diagrams. (Lacking the final blank G8, title with 2 long but clean closed tears and remnants of three red tags in margins, faint marginal waterstaining, light spotting.) Modern vellum (new endpapers). Provenance: scored inscription on title.
First printed in 1493, al-Farghani's work was extremely influential and largely responsible for spreading knowledge of Ptolemaic astronomy throughout medieval Europe, ‘at least until this role was taken over by Sacrobosco’s Sphere. But even then … [it] continued to be used, and Sacrobosco’s Sphere was clearly indebted to it’ (DSB). Written by Alfraganus about 833, the work was first translated into Latin by John of Seville in 1137 under the title of Differentia scientie astrorum. It had far reaching influence: it was the main source of astronomical knowledge for Dante's cosmology in Il convivio and the Divina Commedia and even Columbus used Alfraganus' value of the measurement of the earth. Adams A-738.
Small 8° (167 x 109mm). Printer’s device on title and repeated on verso of final leaf, woodcut diagrams. (Lacking the final blank G8, title with 2 long but clean closed tears and remnants of three red tags in margins, faint marginal waterstaining, light spotting.) Modern vellum (new endpapers). Provenance: scored inscription on title.
First printed in 1493, al-Farghani's work was extremely influential and largely responsible for spreading knowledge of Ptolemaic astronomy throughout medieval Europe, ‘at least until this role was taken over by Sacrobosco’s Sphere. But even then … [it] continued to be used, and Sacrobosco’s Sphere was clearly indebted to it’ (DSB). Written by Alfraganus about 833, the work was first translated into Latin by John of Seville in 1137 under the title of Differentia scientie astrorum. It had far reaching influence: it was the main source of astronomical knowledge for Dante's cosmology in Il convivio and the Divina Commedia and even Columbus used Alfraganus' value of the measurement of the earth. Adams A-738.
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