SCHEINER, Christoph (1573-1650). Refractiones coelestes sive solis elliptici phaenomenon illustratum. Ingolstadt: Ederiana for Elisabeth Angermaier, 1617.
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SCHEINER, Christoph (1573-1650). Refractiones coelestes sive solis elliptici phaenomenon illustratum. Ingolstadt: Ederiana for Elisabeth Angermaier, 1617.

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SCHEINER, Christoph (1573-1650). Refractiones coelestes sive solis elliptici phaenomenon illustratum. Ingolstadt: Ederiana for Elisabeth Angermaier, 1617.

Small 4° (198 x 141mm). Solar emblem on title, numerous woodcut diagrams and illustrations, table of observations on I2r. (Title with margin clipped and repaired.) Modern old-style calf. Provenance: removed stamp on final leaf.

FIRST EDITION. In this work, as in Sol elliptic, Scheiner calls attention to the elliptical form of the sun near the horizon. Brunet VI, 486; Cinti 59; Honeyman 2779; Zinner 4605.
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