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MAGINI, GIOVANNI ANTONIO. Supplementum ephemeridum, ac tabularum secundorum mobilium. . . in quo habentur ratio, & methodus perfacilis promptissimè supputandi verum motum Solis, Lunae, & Martis ex novis tabulis secundum Tychonicas observationes. [16], 311, [1] pages. 4to, 212x153 mm, contemporary limp vellum, lower portion of spine wormed; occasional toning, scattered marginal foxing, contemporary inscriptions on title, few marginalia, partial split between pages 310 and 311. Venice: Bartolomeo Rodella for heirs of Damiano Zenaro, 1614
first edition of the first ephemeris based on Keplerian astronomy, also containing the first printing of 4 letters from Kepler to Magini. BEA, pages 724-26; Caspar 46; DSB IX, 12-13; Houzeau & Lancaster 15036; Riccardi II, 70.
