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Title

Facsimile of LJS 64, Illustrations to Georg von Peurbach's Novae theoricae planetarum

Authors

Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesFollow

Date of this Version

4-13-2015

Files

Comments

Diagrams, many with moving parts, designed to accompany the work Theoricae novae planetarum by 15th-century Austrian astronomer Georg von Peurbach, who taught at the universities in Padua and Ferrara. The diagrams demonstrate increasingly complex planetary motion. An early 17th-century inscription on the first flyleaf refers to an edition of Peurbach published in Venice in 1616.

Keywords

Planets--Orbits, Planetary theory--Early works to 1800, Astronomy--Early works to 1800 Codices, Diagrams, Volvelles, Manuscripts Latin--16th century, Manuscripts Renaissance

See More at Penn in Hand

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4809379

Link to Video

http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_video/33/

Link to OPENN

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs64.html

Recommended Citation

Porter, Dot, "Facsimile of LJS 64, Illustrations to Georg von Peurbach's Novae theoricae planetarum" (2015). Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): EBooks. 4.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/4