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SACROBOSCO, JOHANNES; et al.Sphaera Mundi[with Joannes Regiomontanus, Disputationes contra Cremonensia in planetarum theorias deliramenta,<> and Georg von Peurbach, Theoriae novae planetarum<>]. Large allegorical woodcut on title showing Ptolemy enthroned between Astronomia and Urania, with zodiac figures above; numerous woodcut text illustrations and diagrams. 47 (of 48) leaves; lacks final blank. 4to, modern flexible boards; outer margins ineptly trimmed entering border of title woodcut and causing text loss on next 5 and final 5 leaves.<\t>(Venice: Jacobus Pentius de Leucho, 24 December 1519)
"An elementary discourse on the theoretical mechanism of the universe; popular for more than two centuries in spite of the writings of Peurbach, Regiomontanus, and others which refuted it"--Stillwell 70 (original edition circa 1472).
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