Giovanni Antonio Magini (1555-1617)
Ephemerides Coelestium Motuum.
Venice: Apud Damianum Zenarium, 1582.
First edition,
two large quarto volumes bound in uniform original limp vellum;
woodcut printer's device to first title;
divisional title pages;
woodcut author portrait on verso of first title;
old ownership inscriptions and stamps to title pages
Good interior, some wear to the vellum, inner hinges broken, small damage to the edge of the back cover of Volume II
Size 7 by 9 1/4 in.
Text in Latin

Giovanni Antonio Magini (in Latin, Maginus) (1555 – 1617) was an Italian astronomer, astrologer, cartographer, and mathematician.
He was born in Padua, and completed studies in philosophy in Bologna in 1579.
His father was Pasquale Magini, a citizen of Padua.
Dedicating himself to astronomy, in 1582 he wrote Ephemerides coelestium motuum, translated into Italian the following year.
In 1588 he was chosen over Galileo Galilei to occupy the chair of mathematics at the University of Bologna after the death of Egnatio Danti.
He died in Bologna on 11 February 1617


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