Kepler, J. Epitome astronomiae Copernicanae. Usitata forma quaestionum & responsionum conscripta, inq(ue) VII. libros digesta. 3 in 1 Bd. Linz u. Frankfurt (1618)-1622. (16,5:10 cm). Mit zahlr. Textholzschn. u. 1 gefalt. Tab. Prgt. d. Zt. mit etwas Blindprägung, hs. Rückentitel., gering angestaubt, Schuber. VD 17 39:120904V (Bd. 2: 23:278370F); Dünnhaupt 2290f., 36.I.1, 36.II.2 u. 36.III.1; Caspar 55, 69 u. 66. - Erste Ausgabe: erster Druck von Bd. 1 u. 3, Bd. 2 Titelauflage mit Jahreszahl 1622 . "Despite its title, Kepler's 'Epitome astronomiae Copernicanae' was more an introduction to Keplerian than to Copernican astronomy. Cast in a catechatical form of questions and answers typical of 16th century astronomy textbooks, it treated all of heliocentric astronomy in a systematic way, including the relations now called Kepler's law's ... J. L. Russell has maintained that from 1630 to 1650 the 'Epitome' was the most widely read treatise on theoretical astronomy in Europe" (DSB VII, 302). Bd. 1 (Linz, J. Planck, 1618): 14 Bll. (o.d.l.w.), 417 (recte 409) S., 1 w. Bl.; Bd. 2 (Linz, J. Planck für G. Tambach [in Frankfurt], 1622): 1 Bl., S. 419-622, 1 Bl. Errata; Bd. 3 (Frankfurt, G. Tambach, 1621): 6 Bll., S. 641-932, 8 Bll. (mit der gefalt. "Tabella synoptica"). - Vereinzelt stockfleckig, gering gebräunt, vereinzelt kleine alte Restaurierungen im weißen Rand. Schönes Exemplar. - Provenienz: Helmut Tenner (Heidelberg) Auktion 90, Kat.-Nr. 316 (1972) 3 in 1 vol. Vol. 1 and 3 in first edition, vol. 2 in title issue of the first edition (see Caspar). After the first part was published, the work was placed on the Index, and the second part in process of publication, was moved from Linz to Frankfurt where the second issue was published, with only the title-page changed. - Slight foxing and browning in places, few small old marginal restorations. Contemporary vellum, gilt fillets, slightly dusty, mod. slip-case. Fine copy. For provenance see above.
Kepler, J. Epitome astronomiae Copernicanae. Usitata forma quaestionum & responsionum conscripta, inq(ue) VII. libros digesta. 3 in 1 Bd. Linz u. Frankfurt (1618)-1622. (16,5:10 cm). Mit zahlr. Textholzschn. u. 1 gefalt. Tab. Prgt. d. Zt. mit etwas Blindprägung, hs. Rückentitel., gering angestaubt, Schuber. VD 17 39:120904V (Bd. 2: 23:278370F); Dünnhaupt 2290f., 36.I.1, 36.II.2 u. 36.III.1; Caspar 55, 69 u. 66. - Erste Ausgabe: erster Druck von Bd. 1 u. 3, Bd. 2 Titelauflage mit Jahreszahl 1622 . "Despite its title, Kepler's 'Epitome astronomiae Copernicanae' was more an introduction to Keplerian than to Copernican astronomy. Cast in a catechatical form of questions and answers typical of 16th century astronomy textbooks, it treated all of heliocentric astronomy in a systematic way, including the relations now called Kepler's law's ... J. L. Russell has maintained that from 1630 to 1650 the 'Epitome' was the most widely read treatise on theoretical astronomy in Europe" (DSB VII, 302). Bd. 1 (Linz, J. Planck, 1618): 14 Bll. (o.d.l.w.), 417 (recte 409) S., 1 w. Bl.; Bd. 2 (Linz, J. Planck für G. Tambach [in Frankfurt], 1622): 1 Bl., S. 419-622, 1 Bl. Errata; Bd. 3 (Frankfurt, G. Tambach, 1621): 6 Bll., S. 641-932, 8 Bll. (mit der gefalt. "Tabella synoptica"). - Vereinzelt stockfleckig, gering gebräunt, vereinzelt kleine alte Restaurierungen im weißen Rand. Schönes Exemplar. - Provenienz: Helmut Tenner (Heidelberg) Auktion 90, Kat.-Nr. 316 (1972) 3 in 1 vol. Vol. 1 and 3 in first edition, vol. 2 in title issue of the first edition (see Caspar). After the first part was published, the work was placed on the Index, and the second part in process of publication, was moved from Linz to Frankfurt where the second issue was published, with only the title-page changed. - Slight foxing and browning in places, few small old marginal restorations. Contemporary vellum, gilt fillets, slightly dusty, mod. slip-case. Fine copy. For provenance see above.
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