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Bianchini, Giovanni (1410-c. 1469) Luminarium atque Planetarum Motuum Tabulae Octoginta.
Basel: Per Ioannem Hervagium, 1553.
First edition, folio, woodcut printer's device to title; large woodcut of a geocentric planetary system, text woodcut portraits of Bianchini and Pruchner heading first leaf of text, other text illustrations; ex libris Laurentius Schreckenfuchs, with his signature dated 1575 to title [a relation of Copernican astronomer Erasmus Oswald Schreckenfuchs (1511-1579)]; another signature crossed out at top of title and stamp of v. Zach near woodcut device (top outside corner of blank margin trimmed from title and repaired from verso); occasional contemporary handwritten corrections to the tables; large sheet of laid paper covered with calculations and figures in ink in a contemporary hand inserted between SS1 & SS2; bound in later speckled half calf with marbled paper boards; 12 x 8 1/4 in.
This collection of planetary tables was assembled and edited by Nikolaus Pruckner, an astronomy professor at Tubingen. They include updated versions of Bianchini's tables, originally published in 1494, along with Peurbach's tables of eclipses, which are based on the Alphonsine tables. The inserted sheet of calculations in this copy occurs in the section of Peurbach's tables of eclipses. "Peurbach expanded and re-arranged the tables needed for every step in eclipse computation, saving the calculator much time and relieving him of a number of tedious procedures." (Quoted from the DSB.)
Ex libris Professor, Astronomer, Historian & Bibliophile Owen Gingerich.
