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ODIERNA, Giovanni Battista (1597-1660). De systemate orbis cometici deque admirandis coeli characteribus. Palermo: Niccolò Bua, 1654.
4° (211 x 150mm). Woodcut illustrations (black on white), some full-page, ornamental initials. (Title tipped in, some spotting, occasional soiling, light marginal waterstaining.) Contemporary limp vellum (spine block twisted, lightly soiled); modern case. Provenance: Father Giulio d’Amico (several inscriptions, some scored, including one on title) – Lemaggio (inscription on title and K4 verso) – blind-stamped armorial (free endpaper) – annotations on pastedowns.
SCARCE FIRST EDITION. ‘Perhaps his most interesting work is his 1654 "Systematics of the world of comets, and on the admirable objects of the sky". Odierna thought there were profound differences between comets and nebulae: because of the motion and changing appearance of comets, he thought them to be made up of a more terrestrial matter, while nebulae should be made up of stars, and thus "Lux Primogenita". In the first part he follows Galileo's ideas on comets. In the second, more interesting part, he describes and lists 40 nebulae he had observed, with finder charts and some sketches, classified according to their resolvability into stars in Luminosae (star clusters to the naked eye), Nebulae (appearing nebulous to the unaided eye, but are resolved in his telescope) and Occultae (not resolved in his telescope)’ (H. Frommert, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers). Not in Houzeau and Lancaster.
4° (211 x 150mm). Woodcut illustrations (black on white), some full-page, ornamental initials. (Title tipped in, some spotting, occasional soiling, light marginal waterstaining.) Contemporary limp vellum (spine block twisted, lightly soiled); modern case. Provenance: Father Giulio d’Amico (several inscriptions, some scored, including one on title) – Lemaggio (inscription on title and K4 verso) – blind-stamped armorial (free endpaper) – annotations on pastedowns.
SCARCE FIRST EDITION. ‘Perhaps his most interesting work is his 1654 "Systematics of the world of comets, and on the admirable objects of the sky". Odierna thought there were profound differences between comets and nebulae: because of the motion and changing appearance of comets, he thought them to be made up of a more terrestrial matter, while nebulae should be made up of stars, and thus "Lux Primogenita". In the first part he follows Galileo's ideas on comets. In the second, more interesting part, he describes and lists 40 nebulae he had observed, with finder charts and some sketches, classified according to their resolvability into stars in Luminosae (star clusters to the naked eye), Nebulae (appearing nebulous to the unaided eye, but are resolved in his telescope) and Occultae (not resolved in his telescope)’ (H. Frommert, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers). Not in Houzeau and Lancaster.
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