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7-2014
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History | Medieval Studies | Other Arts and Humanities
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Porter, D. (2014, July 01). University of Pennsylvania Library's LJS 64 - Novae theoricae planetarum (Video Orientation). [Video file.] Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_video/33

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Video orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's LJS 64 - Illustrations to Georg von Peurbach's Novae theoricae planetarum.
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.