MOLETI [or MOLETO], GIUSEPPE. Tabulae Gregorianae motuum octavae sphaerae ac luminarium ad usum calendarii ecclesiastici,& ad urbis Romae meridianum supputatae . . . Adjecti sunt Libri duo de corrigendo calendario, & de usu computi ecclesiastici. [8], 50; 88; 37, [1] leaves. 3 parts in volume. 4to, 270x207 mm, modern leather; light to moderate foxing, some leaves browned, small dampstain in lower margin of opening leaves, soiling and old stamp ('Ex Testam. RMI Oliveri') on title. Venice: Pietro Deuchino, 1580
first edition of astronomical tables compiled at the request of the papal commission on calendar reform and named in honor of the Pope, printed together with 2 related technical tracts. Moleti's tables were apparently the earliest published in Italy to be based on the Copernican Prutenic Tables of Erasmus Reinhold. Gascoigne 337; Houzeau & Lancaster 12758; Riccardi II, 164; Thorndike VI, 57.
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