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BLAEU (Guillaume): Institution Astronomique de l'Usage des Globes et Spheres célestes & terrestres. Amsterdam, Jean and Corneille Blaeu, 1642. One volume. 15.5 by 20.5 cm. (18)-277 pages. Full contemporary basane spine with 4 raised bands, ornate caissons, double gilt fillet framing the boards. Picturesque old restoration of the upper cover, small leather tears on the second cover (not serious). Title page with a tear in the margin, with no missing text. Small light marginal wetness on a few leaves, two small paper tears in margins, with no missing text. Two parts have been interchanged in the binding, but the book is complete. 34 illustrations in the text, mainly of astronomical instruments. Lamp-ends and initials. First edition of the French translation of this important treatise, first published in Dutch in 1620, in three parts: the first, on the composition and parts of globes; the second, on Ptolemy's "improper" hypothesis that the earth is immobile; the third, on "the true hypothesis of N. Copernicus that the earth is mobile". Willem Jansoon BLAEU (1571-1638), Dutch astronomer and mathematician, was a master globetrotter, famous for improving cartography. In this work, Blaeu gives a detailed explanation of the different parts of a globe, followed by a series of almost 150 exercises, for both the celestial and terrestrial globe. Blaeu had worked on the island of Hven with Tycho Brahe, whose measurements enabled KEPLER to conceive the elliptical trajectories of the planets, and was a fervent supporter of the Copernican system. Rare book.

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BLAEU (Guillaume): Institution Astronomique de l'Usage des Globes et Spheres célestes & terrestres. Amsterdam, Jean and Corneille Blaeu, 1642. One volume. 15.5 by 20.5 cm. (18)-277 pages. Full contemporary basane spine with 4 raised bands, ornate caissons, double gilt fillet framing the boards. Picturesque old restoration of the upper cover, small leather tears on the second cover (not serious). Title page with a tear in the margin, with no missing text. Small light marginal wetness on a few leaves, two small paper tears in margins, with no missing text. Two parts have been interchanged in the binding, but the book is complete. 34 illustrations in the text, mainly of astronomical instruments. Lamp-ends and initials. First edition of the French translation of this important treatise, first published in Dutch in 1620, in three parts: the first, on the composition and parts of globes; the second, on Ptolemy's "improper" hypothesis that the earth is immobile; the third, on "the true hypothesis of N. Copernicus that the earth is mobile". Willem Jansoon BLAEU (1571-1638), Dutch astronomer and mathematician, was a master globetrotter, famous for improving cartography. In this work, Blaeu gives a detailed explanation of the different parts of a globe, followed by a series of almost 150 exercises, for both the celestial and terrestrial globe. Blaeu had worked on the island of Hven with Tycho Brahe, whose measurements enabled KEPLER to conceive the elliptical trajectories of the planets, and was a fervent supporter of the Copernican system. Rare book.

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