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MARCO of Benevento (1465-1522). Apologeticum opusculum … adversus ineptias Cacostrologi Anonimi . Naples: Antonius de Frizis, 9 March 1521.
MARCO of Benevento (1465-1522). Apologeticum opusculum … adversus ineptias Cacostrologi Anonimi . Naples: Antonius de Frizis, 9 March 1521. 4° (193 x 133mm). Title in gothic type with woodcut historiated border, woodcut diagrams and initials. (Some old stains.) 19th-century blue marbled boards, front cover with shelf label (spine rather worn). Provenance : several contemporary manuscript corrections. FIRST EDITION, title variant B in SBN/It with ‘obseruationes’ in place of ‘observationes’. Houzeau and Lancaster state that there was also a 1521 Rome edition, but there is no record of this in SBN. Born in Benevento, Marco was a mathematician and astronomer who became professor of logic and geometry at Naples. His short work was a reply to Albertus Pighius’s De aequinoctiorum solsticiorumque inventione which had appeared in Paris, 1520, attacking Peurbach’s Tractatus de motu octavae spherae (c. 1480). The French astronomer is fiercely criticised for daring to dispute the validity of the tabulae Alphonsinae, as well as the great discoveries of Peurbach and Regiomontanus (Johann Müller). AN EXTREMELY RARE TITLE, not seen by Thorndike. RBH only records a copy in a Lathrop Harper catalogue of 1977. Adams B-660; Houzeau and Lancaster 1773; Riccardi Suppl. II, 93; Thorndike V, pp.199--201; not in BL.