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Title: 1560 ASTRONOMICAL TABLES by Joannes Stadius antique ASTROLOGY Tabulae Bergenses

Description: Joannes Stadius (1527-1579)
Tabulae Bergenses Aequabilis Adparentus Motus Orbium Coelestium ad illustrissimum reverendisimum Q;ue Principem D. Robertum De Bergis, Leodii Episcopum, Bullionii Ducem, Comitem Losensem
Cologne: Apud Haeredes Arnoldi Birckmanni, 1560.
First edition,
woodcut device with author portrait to title;
bound in original vellum over boards with boards blind-tooled "Recollects" on both boards;
with handwritten inscription of a Franciscan order in Bordeaux on title;
some toning and foxing, occasional dampstains,
some worming to the top inner gutter of several signatures at the center of the work
Size: 7 1/2 by 10 3/4 inches
Text in Latin

These astronomical tables were, along with Reinhold?s Prutenic Tables, the first to be based on the Copernican system.
Stadius, in the dedication, indicates that he is following in the footsteps of Copernicus and Reinhold but that he considers the writings of Copernicus to be too sketchy while those of Reinhold required too much calculation? (Tomash & Williams).
Educated by Gemma Frisuis, Stadius was one of the most important mathematicians of the late 16th century; and famous for his ephemerides, which gave the positions of astronomical objects in the sky at a given time. Stadius is best known for his first work Ephemerides novae et auctae published in 1554 by Arnold Birkmann. Published after Stadius received a letter from Frisius, written in the last year of his life, where Frisius vigorously defends Copernicanism and urges Stadius to ignore accusations of falsely believing that the earth moves and the sun is at rest; he exhorts him to follow the Prutenic Tables and his own observations, since Copernicus? system better explains the phenomena.

Johannes Stadius or Estadius (Dutch: Jan Van Ostaeyen; French: Jean Stade) ( 1527 – 1579), was a Flemish astronomer, astrologer, and mathematician. He was one of the important late 16th-century makers of ephemerides, which gave the positions of astronomical objects in the sky at a given time or times.
Stadius subsequently worked in Cologne, Brussels and Paris. In Paris, he debated with the trigonometrist Maurice Bressieu of Grenoble and made astrological predictions for the French court.
In his Tabulae Bergenses (1560), Stadius calls himself both royal mathematician (of Philip II of Spain) and mathematician to the Duke of Savoy.
Ephemerides
During his stay in Brussels Stadius published his first work, the Ephemerides novae et auctae, first published by the publisher Arnold Birckmann of Cologne in 1554. An ephemeris (plural: ephemerides) (from the Greek word ephemeros, "daily") was, traditionally, a table providing the positions (given in a Cartesian coordinate system, or in right ascension and declination or, for astrologers, in longitude along the zodiacal ecliptic), of the Sun, the Moon, and the planets in the sky at a given moment in time; the astrological positions are usually given for either noon or midnight depending on the particular ephemeris that is used.
This work posited a link between mathematics and medicine and was influential on Tycho Brahe and Nostradamus.
Stadius had been encouraged to publish the Ephemerides by his old teacher Gemma Frisius. Frisius had in a letter written in 1555 urged Stadius not to be afraid of being accused of believing in a moving earth and a stationary sun (i.e. the theory of Copernicus) or of abandoning the medieval Alfonsine Tables in favor of his own observations. In this letter Frisius further wrote that the system devised by Copernicus gave a better understanding of planetary distances, as well as of certain features of retrograde motion. Frisius' letter was published in several editions of the Ephemerides.

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1560 ASTRONOMICAL TABLES by Joannes Stadius antique ASTROLOGY Tabulae Bergenses

Name: 1560 ASTRONOMICAL TABLES by Joannes Stadius antique ASTROLOGY Tabulae Bergenses
SKU: 225806638
Price: 500 USD
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