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Year:: 1561
Contributor:: Schöner, Johann, 1477-1547; Schöner, Andreas, 1528-1590; Melanchthon, Philipp, 1497-1560
Subject:: Mathematics; Astronomy; Imprint 1561.; Germany > Nuremberg
Extent:: 3 pts. : ill., maps, port. ; 33 cm. (fol.)

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Notes:: Denuo ab authoris filio correcta & locupletata.; Pt. 2 (with separate paging and signatures) has special half-title: Tabulæ astronomicæ ... per Ioannem Sconerum ... correctae et locupletatae. Praefatio D. Philippi Melanchthonis ..; Pt. 3 (with separate paging and signatures) has special title page: Ioannis Schoneri ... aequatorium astronomicum ... Anno M.D.LXI.; Edited by Andreas Schöner.; First published: Nuremberg, 1551.; Colophon dated 1551.; Signatures: α⁶ β⁴ A2̲C⁶ 2D-2E⁸ 2F-2M⁶ 2N⁸ 1-13⁶ 14⁸ 15-19⁶ 20-21⁴ 22-28⁶ 29⁴ ²α⁴ a-i⁶ k⁴ (K4 blank); Bound in 1 volume.; Part 1: [10], ccxviii leaves; pt. 2: clxxi leaves; pt. 3: [5], lvii, [1] leaves.; Numerous errors in foliation. In pt. 1: leaves CLVII and CLXIII repeated once, leaf CLXVII repeated twice and leaf CLXIV misnumb. CLXXIII. In pt. 2: leaf LXXXV repeated, leaves CXXIII-CXXVI omitted in foliation.; Some of the illustrations are volvelles.; In some copies the volvelles have not been cut out and attached to the appropriate diagrams; they are printed on 10 leaves and bound after leaf lvii at end.; "Ioannis Schoneri ... Opusculum Geographicum" (leaf cxxvii-cxliiii, 2nd count) 1st published: Nuremberg. Printed on 10 leaves and bound after leaf lvii at end.; Includes references to Brazil, Columbus, Vespucci, and Magellan.

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Tabulae astronomicae:
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Aequatorium astronomicum:

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"Opera mathematica Ioannis Schoneri Carolostadii in unum uolumen congesta, et publicæ utilitati studiosorum omnium, ac celebri famæ Norici nominis dicata" (1561). John Carter Brown Library. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:581334/

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Opera mathematica Ioannis Schoneri Carolostadii in unum uolumen congesta, et publicæ utilitati studiosorum omnium, ac celebri famæ Norici nominis dicata