BRAHE, Tycho. Opera Omnia, sive Astronomiae Instauratae Progymnasmata in duas partes distributa. Frankfurt, Johan Gotfried Schönwetter, 1648.

2 tomes in 1 vol. 4to; mm. 220x190; Contemporary full vellum binding, title written on the spine; pp. 470, 10; pp. 217, 7. In our specimen the 4 pages dedicated to the Archbishop of Magonza are at the beginning of the work. Printer’s marks in the two Title-pages, hundreds of geometric and astronomical figures in the text, in the last pages of the second work the depiction of two telescopes used by Brahe in his remarks.

First collective Edition of the two major works of the great Danish astronomer. The first part contains the Astronomiae instauratae progymasmata, published posthumously by Kepler in 1602, the second part of the De Mundi Aetherei recentioribus Phaenomenis, appeared to Uraniburg in 1588. In the first work are published astronomical observations made during the course of the Comet of 1572: in addition to the various theories on the movements of the sun and moon appear here a catalog of the positions of 777 fixed stars. In the second, the observations made in relation to the Comet of 1577, always from the Uraniburg Observatory on the island of Hven, with the description of the instruments by himself perfected.

This work put in turmoil the scientific world of the time: in the new universe planets and comets revolved around the sun; the moon, the sun with its retinue of planets and any comets, revolved around the earth together with the sphere of the fixed stars.

Zeitlinger: "Containing observations on the Comet of 1577, the right ascension and declination of 160 stars, and solar and lunar theories, but above all noteworthy for explaining the peculiar planetary system invented by the author, Which for some time found many followers, and Among them Sir Frances Bacon. Anche It includes a reprint of the author's De Stella Nova ".

Poggendorff I, 273; Lalande 225; Houzeau-L. 2704; Waller 12004; Sotheran 6440; Bruening 987; Warner, Sky Explored, 41, 2 b; Houzeau-Lancaster in 2704; Zeitlinger, n. 6440; Norman 321.

Specimen with wide margins, some browning as usual for the quality of the paper and ink, fine copy. Il lotto viene venduto provvisto di licenza d'esportazione.THE LOT IS OFFERED WITH A VALID EXPORT LICENCE