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STREETE, THOMAS. Astronomia Carolina,With Exact and Most Easy Tables and Rules for the Calculation of Eclipses . . . Third Edition, Corrected. To which is added a Series of Observations on the Planets, chiefly of the Moon [etc.]. Woodcut text illustration and diagrams. [8], 2, 31-84, 83-86, 83-84, 85-114, 97-104, 123-137, [1]; [124]; [2], 9-56, 53-70 pages. 4to, 230x166 mm, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked retaining most of original backstrip, with later morocco lettering piece; contents browned. Bookplate of Sir Edward Bullard. London: S. Briscoe and R. Smith, 1716
Reissue of the 1710 edition of Streete's major work, with the title reset. Originally published in 1661, "this became a standard textbook used well into the eighteenth century. It was consulted, as were Streete's ephemerides, by Newton, Flamsteed, and Halley, while Ashmole—and undoubtedly others—also used it to cast horoscopes. Astronomia Carolina was the first printed text in English to discuss Kepler's first and third laws of planetary motion (alongside Streete's own version of Kepler's second law)" (ODNB). BEA, page 1099; DSB XIV, 96; Houzeau & Lancaster 9229.
