uranometria von johann bayer (5 Ergebnisse)

Folio (344 x 243 mm). Engraved title, 3 leaves preliminary text, 51 double-page engraved star maps by Alexander Mair, on guards throughout, letterpress descriptive text printed on rectos/versos of the maps, printer's woodcut device on colophon page, woodcut headpieces, initials and tailpiece. (Engraved title darkened and backed in heavy paper repairing long tear, dedication leaf with repaired tear affecting headpiece and a few letters on verso and with upper and lower margins strengthened, worming at gutters slightly affecting maps 20 and 24, small light crease to map 42, faint dampstain to upper fore-corners). 18th-century vellum over pasteboard, title lettered on spine. Provenance: Augsburg, Benedictines of Sts. Ulrich and Afra (contemporary inscription on title, 18th-century engraved bookplate); Augsburg Stadtsbibliothek (19th-century inkstamp on title, later withdrawal stamp on verso); Haskell F. Norman (his sale, Christie's New York, 15 June 1998 lot 278); Edward Tufte (book labels). First edition. Earlier star catalogues followed Ptolemy's Almagest in using verbal descriptions to describe the location of stars within the 48 northern constellations of classical astronomy, an awkward system that occasioned constant errors and misapprehensions. Bayer, a lawyer and amateur astronomer, was the first to identify the location of stars within a constellation by the use of Greek letters (with the addition of the Latin alphabet for constellations with more than 24 stars). This simple innovation greatly facilitated the identification of stars with the naked eye, just five or six years before the invention of the telescope, and Bayer's stellar nomenclature is still in use today. Bayer used Brahe's recent observations for the northern sky, and included, in chart 49, twelve new southern constellations observed by the Dutch navigator Pieter Dirckzoon Keyzer and reported by Pedro de Medina. To simplify identification of the stars Bayer included in his typographic descriptions both the traditional star numerations within each constellation and the many names for the constellations employed since Ptolemy. The graceful figures of Mair's charts were based on those of Jacobo de Gheyn in Grotius' edition of the Syntagma arateorum (1600). Deborah Warner, The sky explored: celestial cartography 1500-1800, pp. 18-19; Norman 142; Zinner 3951. [With:] BAYER. Explicatio characterum aeneis Uranometrias imaginum, tabulis insculptorum, addita, & commodiore hac forma tertium redintegreta. Augsburg: Johann Praetorius for Johann Gerlin, 1654. 4to (192 x 146 mm). Publisher's engraved device on title. (Final blank removed, foxing and browning.) Contemporary vellum over thin pasteboard. Provenance: Haskell F. Norman (his sale, Christie's New York, 15 June 1998 lot 278). Second separate edition of the descriptive text without the engravings (first published in 1624). Norman 143.

Wraps. Zustand: Good. Format is 5 inches by 6.75 inches at the front of the top wrapper, which as a ornate drawing at the center. The two wings have a slot that the tapered back wing fits into. Inside is a set of 36 cards in alphabetical order, illustrated on one side only, depicting various constellations. Uranometria is a star atlas produced by Johann Bayer. It was published in Augsburg in 1603 by Christoph Mangle (Christophorus Mangus) under the full title Uranometria: omnium asterismorum continens schemata, nova methodo delineata, aereis laminis expressa. This translates to "Uranometria, containing charts of all the constellations, drawn by a new method and engraved on copper plates". The word "Uranometria" derives from Urania, muse of the heavens and "uranos" the Greek word for sky/heavens. A literal translation of "Uranometria" is "Measuring the Heavens" (to be compared with "Geometry"â""Geometria" in Greek, literally translated to "Measuring the Earth"). It was the first atlas to cover the entire celestial sphere. This set includes: Andromeda, Aquarius, Aquila, Argonavis 1603. Aries, Auriga, Bootes, Cancer, Canis Major, Capricornus, Casiopeia, Centaurus, Cepheus, Cetus, Corona, Cygnus, Draco, Eridanus, Gemini, Hercules, Hydra, Leo, Libra, Ophiuchus, Orion, Pegasus, Perseus, Pisces, Piscus Austrinus, Saittarius, Scorpius,Serpens, Taurus, Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, and Virgo. Each card is a work of art and suitable for framing. Johann Bayer, (born 1572, Rain, Bavaria [Germany]â"died March 7, 1625, Augsburg [Germany]), German astronomer whose book Uranometria (1603) promulgated a system of identifying all stars visible to the naked eye. Bayer entered Ingolstadt University in 1592 to study philosophy and later moved to Augsburg. He became a lawyer by profession but, like many of his time, took a curious interest in the new advances in astronomy, leading to his publication of Uranometria, a popular guide to the constellations. In 1612 he was appointed legal adviser to the city council of Augsburg. Before Bayer's work, star charts were based on Ptolemy's star catalog, which was incomplete and ambiguous. Bayer updated Ptolemy's list of 48 constellations, adding 12 constellations newly recognized in the Southern Hemisphere. Based upon Tycho Brahe's determinations of stellar positions and magnitudes, Bayer assigned each visible star in a constellation one of the 24 Greek letters. For constellations with more than 24 visible stars, Bayer completed his listing with Latin letters. The nomenclature that Bayer developed is still used today and has been extended to apply to about 1,300 stars. Wrapper in two pieces, an inner sleeve that had flaps to hold the card and a outer wrapper with the author, title, and publisher on the front with a decoration. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Star Charts (illustrator). 110 pages. Paper / Soft cover reprint edition in very good or better condition, slight wear to edges. Overall good copy of this scarce title. Excellent read. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand. Or would make a great gift for the fan / reader in your life. Archival reprint. Limited Edition of 150 copies. Size: About 10.75 inches by 8.25 inches. Book.

Softcover, pictorial covers. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Star Charts (illustrator). 110 pages. Paper / Soft cover reprint edition in very good or better condition, slight wear to edges. Overall good copy of this scarce title. Excellent read. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand. Or would make a great gift for the fan / reader in your life. Archival reprint. Size: About 10.75 inches by 8.25 inches. Book.

0. 18 cm. 215 S. : überwiegend Ill. kart. Rü. minim. verbl., leichte Textbräunung. Die bibliophilen Taschenbücher ; Nr. 268 Auf Wunsch senden wir gerne ein Foto des Buches via E-mail Sprache: Deutschutsch 0,300 gr.