(Cassini Moon Map) Atlas Céleste de Flamstéed, approuve par l'Académie Royale des Sciences, et publié sous le privilege de cette compagnie [with:] Reduction de la Grande Carte de la Lune de J. Dom. Cassini

Fortin / Flamsteed / Cassini

Verlag: Fortin / Flamsteed / Cassini, 1776

Fortin / Flamsteed / Cassini / 1776 / (Cassini Moon Map) Atlas C leste de Flamst ed, approuve par l'Acad mie Royale des Sciences, et publi sous le privilege de cette compagnie [with:] Reduction de la Grande Carte de la Lune de J. Dom. Cassini (Safe 4, 79182) Small quarto. Contemporary French mottled calf, red leather spine label. Spine gilt. Marbled endpapers. Moderate edge rubbing to binding, corners worn. Spine still bright. Tiny wormholes to the binding near the lower front hinge (book block and leaves not affected by worming). [4] pages, 30 double-sheet engraved celestial plates plus extra folding engraved plate of the moon by Cassini. 40 pages. Complete. Remnants of small oval ink stamp on front flyleaf. Internal condition is exceptionally nice, with all the plates being sharp impressions. Beautiful Celestial Atlas Extra-Illustrated Copy with a Rare and Fine Impression of Cassini's Map of the Moon The Atlas C leste by John Flamsteed (1646-1719) was first published in English in a large format in 1729, ten years after the astronomer's death. The present French edition, styled the second edition on the title page, was issued in Paris by Fortin in 1776. The 30 beautiful plates of constellations reflect the work of Lemonnier, re-engraved in this smaller format (about 1/3 scale) by C. E. Voisard after Beaubl , and with the addition of a plate of the southern planisphere by N. L. de Lacaille (Plate 29), who, in keeping with the Enlightenment, named newly discovered constellations after modern technical instruments, including le Microscope and le Telescope. The present copy is greatly enhanced by the inclusion of a rare and particuarly fine impression of a famous map of the moon. Extra Plate of the Moon by Cassini This copy includes as an extra illustration a fine folding engraving of the moon by Cassini, issued in 1788. The moon engraving, here bound in the Flamsteed in its lovely contemporary French binding, stands as one of the earliest available scientific maps of the moon, based on a work originally published in 1679 by Giovanni Domenico Cassini from drawings by Claude Mellan (1598-1688). This later printing of the map was published by Cassini's great-grandson, of the same name but more commonly known as Cassini IV (1748-1845), who in 1784 was the director of the Paris Observatory. Cassini IV found the original copperplate of his great-grandfather's lunar map in the Observatory's archive and reissued it in this reduced format as R duction de la grande Carte de la Lune de J. Dom. Cassini. This beautiful moon map shows details on the lunar surface observed through a telescope of twenty feet in length or more. Cassini I was a student of the astronomer Giovanni Baptist Riccioli (1598-1671), who was responsible for naming Mare Tranquilitatus. There are two somewhat hidden dedications interwoven into the moon s surface, supposedly to Cassini s wife, Genevi ve de Laistre and to the wife of artist Jean Patigny (d. 1675). One is a profile of a woman s head which features in the lower half by the mountain range Heraclides . The other appears in the Mare Serenitis, a heart shape or the Greek letter phi ( ) as in philos - meaning love. Cassini's map is accompanied by a description of the formations named after noted polymaths such as Galileo, Kepler and Copernicus, and as well as a description of 'newer' discoveries. Cassini IV added labels to significant lunar features on this reduction, as well as a substantial historical note detailing the discoveries made by his great-grandfather and other astronomers. The labels follow the nomenclature of Cassini I's teacher, Giovanni Battista Riccioli, first laid out in his 'Almagestum Movun' in 1651. It divided the visible surface of the Moon into octants, with the features in each named for a certain . Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 79182

Bibliografische Details

Titel: (Cassini Moon Map) Atlas Céleste de ...
Verlag: Fortin / Flamsteed / Cassini
Erscheinungsdatum: 1776
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: VG+
Art des Buches: Book