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BAINBRIDGE, JOHN. An Astronomicall Description of the Late Comet from the 18. of Novemb. 1618. to the 16. of December following.With Certaine Morall Prognosticks or Applications drawne from the Comets Motion and Irradiation amongst the Celestiall Hieroglyphicks. Folding engraved plate. [8], 42, [2] pages, including final blank. 4to, 177x136 mm, modern blind-ruled morocco in period style; scattered contemporary corrections in ink, contents otherwise generally clean. London: Edward Griffin for John Parker, 1619
first edition of the author's first book, a tract describing his observations of the second of 3 comets recorded in 1618; second issue, with Griffin/Parker imprint dated 1619. "This work was remarkable, not only for the telescopic parallax determination, but for its attack on the Aristotelian system and his clear preference for a heliocentric cosmology" (Yeomans). Bainbridge (1582-1643) became the first Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford in 1620. Brüning 796; STC 1208; Yeomans, Comets, pages 66-67.
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