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Gassendi, Pierre. Institutio astronomica juxta hypotheses tam veterum quam Copernici et Tychonis. Amsterdam, Janssonius van Waesberge, 1680. In 4° (198 x 160 mm); [8], 309, [7] pages. Typographical mark to title page, numerous figures in text, also nearly full-page (large hole and missing text to first ten papers, stain to upper white margin). Coeval binding in hazel-colored leather (restorations, scuffed, missing). Important scientific work by Gassendi in whose honor an asteroid and lunar craterGassendi were named.

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Gassendi, Pierre. Institutio astronomica juxta hypotheses tam veterum quam Copernici et Tychonis. Amsterdam, Janssonius van Waesberge, 1680. In 4° (198 x 160 mm); [8], 309, [7] pages. Typographical mark to title page, numerous figures in text, also nearly full-page (large hole and missing text to first ten papers, stain to upper white margin). Coeval binding in hazel-colored leather (restorations, scuffed, missing). Important scientific work by Gassendi in whose honor an asteroid and lunar craterGassendi were named.

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