![LANSBERGE, Philip van (1561-1632). Progymnasmatum astronomiae restitutae liber I. De motu solis. Middelburg: Zacharias Roman, 1628. 4°. Large engraved vignette on title, woodcut diagrams, initials and headpieces. (A few spots.) Second edition. Houzeau and Lancaster 2979. [Bound with the same author’s:]](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14298_0068_000(lansberge_philip_van_progymnasmatum_astronomiae_restitutae_liber_i_de041738).jpg?w=1)
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LANSBERGE, Philip van (1561-1632). Progymnasmatum astronomiae restitutae liber I. De motu solis. Middelburg: Zacharias Roman, 1628. 4°. Large engraved vignette on title, woodcut diagrams, initials and headpieces. (A few spots.) Second edition. Houzeau and Lancaster 2979. [Bound with the same author’s:]
Uranometriae libri tres. Middelburg: Zacharias Roman, 1631. 4°. Large woodcut on title and in text, woodcut device on final leaf. (Some browning, heavy in one gathering, light marginal waterstaining.) FIRST EDITION. Houzeau and Lancaster 2981. [and:]
Commentationes in motum terrae diurnum & annuum. Middelburg: Zacharias Roman, 1630. 4°. Large woodcut on title, one double-page engraved plate, woodcut diagrams, historiated initials, headpieces, with final blank. (Occasional light spots.) First edition in Latin of Bedenckingen op den dagelyckschen, ende jaerlyckschen loop van den aerdt-kloot (Middelburg, 1629). [and:]
Apologia pro commentationibus Philippi Lansbergii in motum terrae diurnum & annuum: adversus libertum fromondum theologum Lovaniensem & Joan. Baptistam Morinum. Middelburg: Zacharias Roman, 1633. Large woodcut on title, woodcut diagrams, with final 2 blanks. (Some spotting and browning). FIRST EDITION.
4 works in one volume, 4° (218 x 162mm). Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine (sides a little warped). Provenance: erased inscription on first title – ‘G.S.’ (initials on rear cover).
‘Van Lansberge taught the probability of the earth's motion according to Copernican doctrine; the same is true of … Commentationes … Both works were attacked for their Copernican ideas by Morin in his Famosi et antiqui problematis de telluris motu vel... (Paris, 1631), and by Libert Froidmond in his Anti-Aristarchus (Antwerp, 1631). He can be credited with bringing the ideas of Copernicus to a wide range of people who did not possess the mathematical background to read advanced texts.
Uranometriae libri tres. Middelburg: Zacharias Roman, 1631. 4°. Large woodcut on title and in text, woodcut device on final leaf. (Some browning, heavy in one gathering, light marginal waterstaining.) FIRST EDITION. Houzeau and Lancaster 2981. [and:]
Commentationes in motum terrae diurnum & annuum. Middelburg: Zacharias Roman, 1630. 4°. Large woodcut on title, one double-page engraved plate, woodcut diagrams, historiated initials, headpieces, with final blank. (Occasional light spots.) First edition in Latin of Bedenckingen op den dagelyckschen, ende jaerlyckschen loop van den aerdt-kloot (Middelburg, 1629). [and:]
Apologia pro commentationibus Philippi Lansbergii in motum terrae diurnum & annuum: adversus libertum fromondum theologum Lovaniensem & Joan. Baptistam Morinum. Middelburg: Zacharias Roman, 1633. Large woodcut on title, woodcut diagrams, with final 2 blanks. (Some spotting and browning). FIRST EDITION.
4 works in one volume, 4° (218 x 162mm). Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine (sides a little warped). Provenance: erased inscription on first title – ‘G.S.’ (initials on rear cover).
‘Van Lansberge taught the probability of the earth's motion according to Copernican doctrine; the same is true of … Commentationes … Both works were attacked for their Copernican ideas by Morin in his Famosi et antiqui problematis de telluris motu vel... (Paris, 1631), and by Libert Froidmond in his Anti-Aristarchus (Antwerp, 1631). He can be credited with bringing the ideas of Copernicus to a wide range of people who did not possess the mathematical background to read advanced texts.
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