Bibliography of Astronomy – 16th century

(Last update: 11 Jan. 2025)

A = History of astronomy in general
B = Histories of mathematics containing the history of astronomy
C = Histories of discoveries and inventions containing astronomical discoveries and inventions
D = Bibliographies and catalogues of books on astronomy
E = Sources for the astronomy of primitive peoples
F = Astrolatry, myths, images, symbols
G = Astronomy of Egypt and Abyssinia
H = Astronomy of Chaldea, Assyria and ancient Persia
I = Astronomy of India and Java (the spelling of the sanskrit names and titles is that of the works and catalogues from which the information was taken)
J = Astronomy of China and Japan
K = History of ancient classic astronomy
L = Collection of historical works (The works contained in the following collections are in Latin, with the exception of the articles marked [G.], which are in Greek. Those accompanied by the letters [G.-L.] are in the Greek text with Latin version.)
M = Greek astronomers (The letter [G.] always designates Greek, the letter [A.] Arabic, the letter [H.] Hebrew, the letter [L.] Latin, and the letters [G.-L.] the Greco-Latin editions.)


1508

Oratio de laudibus astrologiae habita a Bartholomeo Vespucio florentino in almo Patavio Gymnasio anno.M.d.vi.
Textus Sphaerae Iohannis de Sacro Busto.
Expositio sphaerae Eximii artium & medicinae doctoris Domini Francisci Capuani de manfredonia.
Annotationes nonnullae eiusdem Bartholomei Vespucii hic ide itersertae.
Iacobi Fabri stapulensis Commentarii in eandem sphaeram.
Reverendissimi Domini Petri de aliaco Cardinalis & episcopi Cameracensis in eandem quaestiones subtilissimae numero XIIII.
Reverendissimi episcopi Domini Roberti liconiensis sphaerae compendium.
Disputationes Joannis de regio monte contra cremonensia deliramenta.
[G. Purbachii] Theoricarum novarum textus cum expositione eiusdem Francisci Capuani omnia nuper diligentia summa emendata.
[Collection of historical works]
Fol., Venetia, 1508.

Other editions:

Fol., Venetiis, 1513.


1509

Liber novem judicum in judiciis astrorum.
– Clarissimi auctores istius voluminis : Meschella, Aomar, Alkindus, Zael, Albenait, Dorotheus, Jergis, Aristoteles, Phtolemeus.
[Collection of historical works]
4°, Venetiis, 1509 (sometimes cited under the date of 1508);
in Gothic characters, in two columns; published by P. Liechtenstein.


Margarita facetiarum Alfonsi Aragonum regis Vafredicta
Proverbia Sigismundi et Friderici tertij Ro. Imperatore
Tropi sive sales Ioannis Kaisersberg concionatoris Argentinensis: In quarum (sub nomine Scomatum) impressione: nonnullae indigeste similitudines: casu inserte sunt preter autorem: E quibus una saltem haec est: de persuasione trinitatis in una essentia: Frater minor est tonsus et c. Nemo igitur in viro innocentissimo scandalisetur.
Marsilij Ficini Florentini de Sole Pusculum.
Hermolai Barbari Orationes.
Facetiae Adelphinae.
[Collection of historical works]
4°, Argentinae (Straßburg ?), 1509.


1516

Cla. Ptolemaei Inerrantium stellarum significationes per Nicolaum Leonicum ex graeco translatae.
XII Romanorum menses in veteribus monumentis reperti.

Sex priorum mensium digestio ex sex Ovidij Fastorum libris excerpta.
P. Ovidii Nasonis
Fastorum libri VI.
Tristum libri V.
De ponto libri IIII.
In Ibin.
Ad Liviam. [Collection of historical works]
8°, Venetiis, 1516; by presses of ‘Aldus Manutius.
(first aldina edition, 1503?)

Other editions:

12°, Vitebergae, 1534.

16°, Lugduni, 1547; In this edition Ptolemy’s treatise is placed before Ovid’s works.


1517

Macrobii In Somnium Scipionis explanatio et Saturnaliorum libri VII.
Censorinus, De die natali; cum praefatione Donati Veronensis.
[Collection of historical works]
8°, Venetiis, 1517; from Aldus Manutius presses.

Other editions:

Fol., Parisiis, 1519.

In somnium Scipionis ex Ciceronis. VI. libro de rep. eruditissima explanatio.
Eiusdem Saturnaliorum libri VII.
Censorinus De die natali, additis ex vetusto exemplari nonnullis, quae desiderabantur.

8°, Venetiis, 1528; printed by Aldus Manutius.


1518

Sphera mundi [Joannis de Sacro Busto] noviter recognita cum commentis Cichi Esculani.
Expositio J. B. Capuani in eandem.
J. Fabri Stapulensis [Commentarii in eandem].
Theodosii De speris [par un traducteur inconnu].
Michaelis Scoti [Questiones in sphaera].
Quaestiones Petri de Alliaco.
Roberti Linchoniensis Compendium.
[Campani] Tractatus de modo fabricandi spheram solidam.
[Compendium super] Tractatu(s) de sphera Campani.
Tractatus de computo majori ejusdem.
Disputatio Joannis de Monteregio.
Textus Theorice [Purbachii] cum expositione J. B. Capuani.
Ptolomeus, De speculis.
B. Vespuccii Oratio habita in gymnasio patavino, pro sua prima lectione, anno 1506.
[Collection of historical works]
Fol., Venetiis, 1518 (january); Gothic characters, fig. on wood, decorated initials.

Other editions:

Fol., Venetiis, 1518 (jun.); 253 pages in two-column Gothic characters, fig. on wood; from the Giunti presses. This edition has Vespucci’s Oratio at the top, and for the last treatise the Theorica planetarum Joannis Cremonensis, which should be read Gherardo da Sabbionetta.

Fol., Venetiis, 1531. This edition, also of the Giunti, contains everything in the two previous ones, and in addition, at the end: Alpetragii Theorica planetarum nuperrime latinis mandatea literis a Calo Calonymos [Calo Calonimo]; Oratio de laudibus astrologiae per L. Gauricum.


1521

Wen hian thong khao, or: In-depth research of ancient monuments. [Astronomy of China and Japan]
MA-TOUAN-LIN
100 vol., Chinese, Peking, 1521. – One copy in the National Library of Paris and one in the Royal Library of Berlin.
Section XXI deals with astronomy and contains, among other things, a catalogue of ancient eclipses.


1523

Dionysius Alexandrinus Periegetes, Orbis descriptio. [G.-L.]
Arati Astronomicon. [G.-L.]
Procli Sphaera, cum scholiis Ceporini. [G.-L.]
[Collection of historical works]
8°, Basileae, 1523.

Other editions:

8°, Basileae, 1534.

8°, Coloniae, 1543.

8°, Basileae, 1547.


1528

Disciplinarum liberalium orbis, ex P. Consentio et Magno Aurelio Cassiodoro.
Cui adiecimus, adducti argumenti affinitate, libellos L. Apuleii Madaurensis de Syllogismo categorico.
Censorini De die natali.
[Collection of historical works]
4°, Basileae, 1528.

Other editions:

4°, Pictavis, 1568.

Collection published by G. Sichard, and later revised by E. Vinet. Cassiodorus’ treatise is that of the four liberal mathematical arts.


1531

J. Ziegleri Tractatus de constructione sphaerae, et scholia in Procli librum de sphaera.
Commentarius in librum secundum Plinii, quo difficultates plinianae, praesertim atronomicae, omnes tolluntur.
Organon, quo catholica siderum, ut apud Plinium est, mira arte docetur.
G. Collimitii et J. Vadiani in eundem secundum Plinii scholia quaedam.
[Collection of historical works]
Fol. Basileae, 1531.


Sphaerae atque astrorum coelestium ratio, natura, et motus, ad totius mundi fabricationis cognitionem fundamenta.
Iacobus Zieglerus Landauus de solidae sphaerae constructione.
Proclus, De sphaera, sive globo coelesti
[G.-L.], scholijs eiusdem Ziegleri explicatus.
De canonica per sphaeram operatione.
Hemicyclium Berosi.
Aratus Solensis de siderum natura et motu, simul in eundem cum commentarijs Theonis Alexandrini philosophi.
[G.]
Planisphaerium C. Ptolomaei, et Iordani. [Collection of historical works]
4°, Norimbergae, 1531.

Other editions:

4°, [Basileae], 1536; 294 pages.

Collection formed by J. Ziegler. The Aratus is accompanied by the preface of Leontius. The Latin version of Proclus is that of T. Linacer.


1532

Astrologica (quaedam) [scripta], J. Camerario interprete, videlicet:
Circulus solaris, de judiciis sive significationibus XII locorum orbis signiferi [secundum Ephestionem thebanum].
[G.-L.]
Decreta planetarum in singulis locis zodiaci; doctrina Mercurii Trismegistis. [G.-L.]
Vettii Valentis antiochei ex primo libro Floridorum de natura planetarum. [G.-L.] [Collection of historical works]
4°, Norimbergae, 1532; There are some variations in the title of the various copies.


1533

Iulii Firmici Materni iunioris siculi v. c. ad Mavortium Lollianum Astronomicôn lib. VIII per Nicolaum Prucknerum Astrologum nuper ab innumeris mendis vindicati.
His accesserunt.
Claudii Ptolemaei Pheludiensis Alexandrini Apotelesmatôn, quod Quadripartitum vocant, Lib. IIII.

De inerrantium stellarum significationibus Lib. I. Centiloquium eiusdem.
Ex Arabibus et Chaldeis.
Hermetis vetustissimi Astrologi centum Aphoris. Lib. I.
Bethem Centiloquium.

Eiusdem De Horis Planetarum Liber alius.
Almansoris Astrologi propositiones ad Saracenorum regem.
Zahelis Arabis de Electionibus Lib I.
Messahalah de ratione Circuli et Stellarum, et qualiter in hoc seculo operentur, Lib I.
Omar de Nativitatibus Lib. III.
Marci Manlilii Poetae dissertissimi Astronomicôn Lib. V.
Postremo, Othonis Brunfelsii de diffinitionibus et terminis Astrologiae libellus isagogicus.
[Collection of historical works]
Fol., Basileae, 1533; frontispiece, 441 pages in four different paginations.

Other editions:

Fol., Basileae, 1551; 577 pages in three paginations.

Here we have eight books of the Astronomicon of Firmicus, the Proemium being counted as the first book.


1535

C. Iulii Hygini Augusti Liberti Fabularum liber […]
Eiusdem Poeticon astronomicon Llibri quatuor
.
[…]
Palaephati de fabulosis narrationibus, Liber I.
F. Fulgentii Placiadis episcopi Carthaginensis Mythologiarum, Libri III.

Eiusdem de vocum antiquarum interpretaione, Liber I.
de interpretatione vocum antiquarum
Phurnuti De natura deorum, sive poeticarum fabularum allegorijs, speculatio.
Albrici philosophi De deorum imaginibus Liber.
Arati Phainomênôn fragmentum, Germanico Cesare interprete. Germanici Caesaris.
[G.-L.]
Eiusdem Phenomena graecè, cum interpretatione latina.
Procli de sphaera libellus Grecè et Latinè.
[G.-L.] [Collection of historical works]
Fol. Basileae, 1535; belles fig. sur bois.
beautiful fig. on wood.

Other editions:

Fol., Basileae, 1549.

Fol., Basileae, 1570.

8°, Parisiis, 1578.

8°, Lugduni, 1608.

8°, Genevae, 1609.

8°, Lugduni Batavorum, 1670.

Collection formed by J. Mycillus [J. Mattzer]. The latest editions offer slight differences in the order of the non-astronomical treatises, and some additions of no interest to the astronomer.


Erratum. In quo circiter quadraginta loca autorum cum veterum, tum recentum notantur.
AEolia. In qua exponuntur locaque; Ventorum Graeca et Latina.
Phaenomena. quae est siderum et stellarum historiola.
Prognostica. Ubi supra trecenta et triginta indicia tempestatum memorantur.
[Collection of historical works]
8°, Norimbergae, 1535; published by J. Camerarius.

Reprinted in the Nova librorum rariorum collectio, qui vel integri inseruntur vel adcurate recensentur. by H. A. Groschupf; 8°, Halis Magdeburg, 1709.


1537

Rudimenta astronomica Alfragani.
Item Albategnius astronomus peritissimus de motu stellarum, ex observationibus tum proprijs, tum Ptolemaei, omnia cum demonstrationibus Geometricis et Additionibus Ioannis de Regiomonte.
Item Oratio introductoria in omnes scentias Mathematicas Ioannis de Regiomonte, Patavij habita, cum Alfraganum publice praelegeret.

Eiusdem [J. de Regiomonte] utilissima introductio in elementa Euclidis.
Item Epistola Philippi Melanthonis nuncupatoria, ad Senatum Norimbergensem.
[Collection of historical works]
4°, Norimbergae, 1537; Alfraganus occupies 22 leaves, and Albategnius 90, with different paginations.

Alfragan’s version is by Johannes Hispalensis, and Albategnius’s by Plato Tiburtinus, both from the 12th century.


1538

Palaephati De non credendis historiis libellus.
Phornuti De natura deorum libellus.
Luciani De astrologia oratio.
Omnia latine reddita a J. Velareo.
Accessit Epitaphium Isabellae, Dnorum reginae, C. Sceppero autore.
[Collection of historical works]
8°, Antuerpiae, 1538.


1539

De eclipsi Solis miraculosa in passione Domini observata; item de anno, mense, die et hora conceptionis, nativitatis, passionis et resurrectionis ejus. [Astrolatry, myths, images, symbols]
4°, Romae, 1539.
GAURICUS, L. = GAURICO, L.

Other editions

4°, Parisiis, 1553.

This work was not included in the collection of his works.


1540

Oratio de inventoribus, utilitate et laudibus astronomiae. [History of astronomy in general]
Following the Latin version of the Centum sententiae [aphorismi] de C. Ptolemaus, 4°, Romae, 1540.
GAURICUS, L. = GAURICO, L.

Other editions

8°, Coloniae, 1544.


De usu astrolabi compendium, schematibus commodissimis illustratum, ac mendis quamplurimis repurgatum.
Autore Ianne Martino Poblacion.
Cui accessit Procli Diadochi fabrica ususque Astrolabi., Giorgio Valla Placentino interprete.
Praeterea Gregorae Nicephori Astrolabus, eodem interprete
. [Collection of historical works]
8°, Lutetiae, 1540.

Other editions:

8°, Lutetiae, 1546.

8°, Lutetiae, 1554.

8°, Lutetiae, 1557.

The versions of the Greek authors are by G. Valla.


1547

Procli De sphaera liber. [G.-L.]
Cleomedis De mundo sive circularis inspectionis meteororum libri duo. [G.-L.]
Arati Solensis Phaenomena, sive Apparentia. [G.-L.]
Dionysii Afri Descriptio orbis habitabilis; [G.-L.]
curante M. Hopper(?). [Collection of historical works]
8°, Basileae, 1547.

Other editions:

8°, Antuerpiae, 1547.

8°, Antuerpiae, 1550.

8°, Antuerpiae, 1553 (some copies from 1554).

8°, Parisiis, 1560.

[…]
Una cum Honteri Coronensis De Cosmographiae rudimentis […]
8°, Basileae, 1561; with the addition of the Cosmographiae rudimenta of J. Honter.

8°, Basileae, 1585; with the addition of the Cosmographiae rudimenta of J. Honter.

The Latin version of Cleomedes is that of G. Valla.


1556

J. de Sacro Bosco Sphaera emendata.
E. Vineti santonis Scholia in eandem sphaeram.
Adjunximus huic libro Compendium in sphaeram per P. Valerianum bellunensem, et P. Nonii saleciensis Demonstrationem eorum quae in extremo capite de Climatibus Sacroboscius scribit de inaequali climatum latitudine, eodem Vineto interprete.
[Collection of historical works]
8°, Lutetiae, 1556 (most copies bear 1557); fig. on wood partly movable.

Other editions:

8°, Lutetiae, 1558.

8°, Lutetiae, 1561.

8°, Coloniae, 1562.

8°, Venetiis, 1562.

8°, Lugduni, 1567.

8°, Venetiis, 1574.

8°, Parisiis, 1577.

8°, Coloniae, 1591.

8°, Coloniae, 1600.

8°, Lugduni, 1606.

8°, Parisiis, 1608.

8°, Parisiis, 1610.

8°, Lugduni, 1617; «annotationibus J. Martini Pedemontani aucta.»

12°, Venetiis, 1620.

8°, Lugduni, 1639; avec les notes de J. Martinus.


1558

Ptolemaei Planisphaerium.
Jordani Planisphaerium.
F. Commandini in Ptolemaei planisphaerium commentarius, in quo universa scenographices ratio quambrevissime traditur ac demonstrationisbus confirmatur.
[Collection of historical works]
2 part. en 1 vol. 4°, Venetiis, 1558; Roman characters, woodcuts; Aldus edition.
Ptolemy’s work is only in Latin version. Commandin’s commentary has 28 pages. There is some information on celestial planispheres.


Theodosii sphericorum elementorum libri. III. Ex traditione Maurolyci Messanensis Mathematici.
Menelai Sphaericorum lib. III. Ex traditione eiusdem.
Maurolyci Sphericorum lib. II.
Autolyci De sphaera quae movetur Liber.
Theodosii De habitationibus.
Euclidis Phaenomena Brevissime demonstrata.

[Collection of historical works]
Fol. Messanae, 1558; 78 pages of text, with fig. on wood in the margin.
Although some bibliophiles have doubted the existence of this edition, it is very real. There was a copy in Mr. Chasles’ library.

Reproduced in a slightly different order, with the addition of: Apollonii Conica; Sereni De sectione coni et cylindri; Archimedi Opera; 3 vols., 16°, Parisiis, 1626.
Menelaus is put into Latin from an Arabic translation. (DELAMBRE, His, III, 1819, 438).


Translation.
Trattato di astrologia del illustrissimo philosopho Pithagora. [Greek astronomers]
4°, Bologna, 1558, frontispiece with allegorical figures on wood.
This treatise is an astronomical work on the sphere. It is apocryphal and of a much more recent date. There are MSS of this Latin version at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge


1559

ΕΙΣ ΤΗΝ ΤΕΤΡΑΒΙΒΛΟΝ Τ ΟΥ ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΕΞΗΓΗΤΗΣ ΑΝΩΝΙΜΟΣ.
In Claudii Ptolemaei Quadripartitum enarrator ignoti nominis, quem tamen Proclum fuisse quidam existimant. [G.-L.]
ΠΟΡΦΥΡΙΟΥ ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΥ ΕΙΣΑΓΩΓΗ ΕΙΣ ΤΗΝ […].
Porphyrii philosophi introductio in Ptolemaei Opus de effectibus astrorum, graece et latine. [G.-L.]
Hermetis philosophi De revolutionibus nativitatum libri duo, incerto interprete. [G.-L.] [Collection of historical works]
Fol., Basileae, 1559; 12 leaves and 279 pages.

Collection formed by J. Cardan, published by H. Wolf[ius].


Arati Solensis Phaenomena et prognostica Interpretibus.
M. Tullio Cicerone. Rufo Festo Avieno. Germanico Caesare, una cum eius commentariis. [G.-L.]
C. Iulii Hygini Astronomicon. […] [Collection of historical works ]
2 vol. 4°, Parisiis, 1559; apud G. Morelium.

Fol., Coloniae Agrippinae, 1569.

In the two-volume edition, the Greek text is in the first volume and the translations in the second.


1564

Astrologica opuscula antiqua.
Fragmentum Astrologicum, incerto auctore, iniquo, praeter caetera, aliquot exemplis ostenditur, quomodo medicatio ad Astrologicam rationem sit accomodanda.
Liber Regum de significationibus Planetarum in duodecim domiciliis Coeli, et de natura duodecim signorum Zodiaci.
Liber Hermetis centum Aphorismorum, cum commentationibus Thaddaei Hagecij ab Hagek D.
[Collection of historical works]
4°, Pragae, 1564.

4°, Hagae Comitum, 1564.

4°, Coloniae, 1564.


1565

Oratio de inventoribus, utilitate et laudibus astronomiae. [History of astronomy in general]
Reproduced at the end of the treatise of N. Tartaglia, Jordani opusculum de ponderositate, 4°, Venetiis, 1565.
GAURICUS, L. = GAURICO, L.


1567

Hipparchou Bithunou tôn Aratou Phainomenôn exêgêseôn biblia G. [G.]
Tou autou Asteirsmoi. [G.]
Achilleôs Tatiou Prolegomena eis ta Aratou Phainomena. [G.]
Aratou Bios kai Scholia palaiôn tinôn eis to autou poiêma. [G.] [Collection of historical works]
Fol., Florentiae, 1567; from the Giunti press.
Collected and published by P. Victorius [Vittori]. The life of Aratus, by an unknown author, was reproduced with Latin version in the Uranologion of D. Petavius ​​[Petau], 1630, and in its reprints.


1568

Theoricae novae planetarum Georgii Purbachii; quibus accesserunt:
Joan. de Monteregio Disputationes super deliramenta theoricarum Gerardi Cremonensis.
Joan. Esler moguntini Tractatus utilis ante LX annos conscriptus, cui titulum fecit, Speculum astrologicum, ubi multa quae ad theoricarum, praesertim octavae sphaerae, intellectum faciunt, explicantur.
Christiani Urstitii Quaestiones in Theoricas planetarum Purbachii.
[Collection of historical works]
8°, Basileae, 1568 (title also from 1569).

Other editions:

8°, Basileae, 1573.

8°, Basileae, 1596.


1572

Primera parte de las differencias de libros que ay en el universo. [Bibliographies and catalogues of books on astronomy]
8°, Salamanca, 1572.
VENEGAS, A.


Sphaericae doctrinae propositiones graecae et latinae: nunc primum per M. Cunradum Dasypodium [Rauchfuss] in lucem editae. […]
Theodosii De sphaera libri III.
[G.-L.]
Ejusdem De habitationibus libr I. [G.-L.]
Ejusdem De diebus et noctibus libri II. [G.-L.]
Autolycus, De sphaera mobili liber I. [G.-L.]
Ejusdem De ortu et occasu stellarum libri II. [G.-L.]
Barlami monachi Logisticae astrorum libri VI. [G.-L.] [Collection of historical works]
8°, Argentorati, 1572; 8 preliminary leaves; 64 pages for the Greek texts of Theodosius and Autolycus; 4 preliminary leaves and 39 pages for the Greek text of Barlaam; 4 preliminary leaves and 64 pages for the Latin version of the first two authors; 4 leaves and 47 pages for that of Barlaam.


Opticae Thesaurus.
Alhazeni arabis libri septem, nunc primum editi.
Eiusdem liber de crepusculis et nubium ascensionibus.
Item Vitellionis thuringopoloni libri X.
Omnes instaurati, figuris illustrati et aucti, adjectis etiam in Alhazenum commentarijs a F. Rinsero.
[Collection of historical works]
Fol., Basileae, 1572; 474 pages.
B. Boncompagni (Rome, Att, IV, 1851, 27) believes that the translation of the seven books of Alhazen on optics is by Gerard of Cremona, like that of the treatise on twilight. The latter had already printed, with the De crepusculis of Nonius; 4°, Olyssipone, 1542.


1579

De stellis, iisque quae in stellis et in numina conversi dicuntur homines. [Astrolatry, myths, images, symbols]
4°, Venetiis, 1579.
BALDINUS, B. = BALDINO, B.
Little Latin poem.


1581

Theoricae novae planetarum Georgij Purbachij, Germani.
Francisci Maurolyci computus ecclesiasticus, sive, de ratione anni.
Henrici Glareani, Helvetii.

De Geographia, vel, rudimentorum mathematicorum, liber unus. [Collection of historical works]
8°, Coloniae Agrippinae, 1581; 256 pages of text, with fig. on wood. Maurolycus’s work begins on p. 124, and Glareanus’s p. 168.

Other editions:

8°, Coloniae Agrippinae, 1591.

12°, Coloniae Agrippinae, 1603.


Sphaera Ioannis de Sacro Bosco emendata.
Eliae Vineti Santonis scholia in eandem Sphaeram, ab ipso authore restituta.
Quibus nunc accessere scholia Heronis.
Adiunximus huic libro compendium in Sphaeram per Pierium Valerianum Bellunensem, et Petri Nonii Demonstrationem eorum, quae in extremo capite declimatibus Sacroboscius scribit de inaequali climatum latitudine, eodem Vineto interprete.
[Collection of historical works]
8°, Coloniae, 1581.

Other editions:

8°, Antuerpiae, 1582 (some copies are dated 1583).

8°, Parisiis, 1584.

8°, Coloniae, 1590; with addition of the Compendium C. Clavii commentarii.

8°, Coloniae, 1594; consistent with the previous edition.

8°, Coloniae, 1601; id.

8°, Parisiis, 1619.

8°, Antuerpiae, 1673. This was the last time that the Sacrobosco Sphere was reproduced through the press.


1587

Ye lun kuam y [Yue ling kouang hi], or: Lunarum ordinationis lata expositio. [Astronomy of China and Japan]
8 vol., Pekini, 1587; at the Bibl. nationale de Paris.
LU-PU-GUEI = LIU-POU-OUEY
Composed around the year -150. Modern edition, augmented by the commentaries of Chu-ven-kum of the 13th century, those later of Hum-ym-kin, and finally those of Tai-gin of the 16th century, disciple of the preceding.


1588

Autolyci De sphaera que movetur liber.
Theodosii tripolitae De habitationibus liber.
Omnia scholiis antiquis et figuris illustrata, de Vaticana bibliotheca deprompta, et nunc primum in lucem edita, J. Auria interprete.
His additae sunt Maurolyci annotationes.
[Collection of historical works]
4°, Romae, 1588; 72 pages.

The work of Autolycus was put into circulation separately, before the complete printing of the volume, under the date of 1587. These translations are exact and estimated.

Autolycus, De vario ortu et occasu astrorum inerrantium libri II.
Theodosius, De diebus ac notibus libri II.
De bibliotheca Vaticana deprompti, J. Auria interprete.
[Collection of historical works]
4°, Romae.

Reprinted, the two works sometimes separated:
4°, Romae, 1591.


1589

Breve spositione di tutta l’opera di Lucrezio. [History of ancient classic astronomy]
4°, Venetia, 1589.
FRACHETTA, H.
Paraphrase of Lucretius’ poem, with often interesting clarifications of passages that seem obscure.


Astronomica veterum scripta isagogica graeca et latina.
Auctori Graeci.
Procli Sphaera.
[G.-L.]
Arati solensis Phaenomena, et Prognostica. [G.-L.]
Leontius mechanicus de constructione arateae Sphaera. [G.-L.]
Latini.
Aratea Phaenomena cum poetica interpretatione M. T. Ciceronis, Festi Rufi Avieni, Germanici Caes. cum commentariis incerti auct.
Veterum Poetarum Fragmenta Astronomica.
C. Iuli Hygini Poeticon Astronomicon.
Camerarii Carmen quo nomina omnium siderum coelestium complexus est.
[Collection of historical works]
8°, Edelbergae, 1589; 472 pages in 2 paginations. Printed “in officina Sanctandreana” by J. Commelin. Woodcuts in the text.


1590

Historia natural y moral de las Indias, en que se tratan las cosas notables del cielo, y elementos, metales, plantas, y animales dellas : y los ritos, y ceremonias, leyes, y gouierno, y guerras de los Indios. [Sources for the astronomy of primitive peoples]
4°, Sevilla, 1590.
ACOSTA, J. DE = ACOSTA, J. D’

Other editions

8°, Barcelona y Sevilla, 1591; edition revised and corrected by the author.

2 vol. 8°, Madrid, 1608-10.

2 vol. 8°, Madrid, 1792.

See especially lib. V and VI for the astronomy of the indigenous peoples of America.

Translations

Historia naturale, e morale delle Indie
(by G. P. Gallucci);
4°, Venetia, 1596.

Histoire naturelle et morale des Indes tant Orientales qu’Occidentales
(by R. Regnauld);
8°, Paris, 1598.

Histoire naturelle et morale des Indes tant Orientales qu’Occidentales
(by R. Regnauld);
8°, Paris, 1600.

Histoire naturelle et moralle des Indes, tant Orientales qu’Occidentales
(by R. Regnauld);
8°, Paris, 1606.

Histoire naturelle et morale des Indes tant Orientales qu’Occidentales
(by R. Regnauld);
8°, Paris, 1616.

Historie naturael ende morael van de Westersche-Indien […]
(by J. H. van Linschoten);
8°, Enchuysen, 1598.

Historie naturael ende morael van de Westersche-Indien […]
(by J. H. van Linschoten);
4°, Amsterdam, 1624.
Reproduced in vol. II of the Dutch travel collection, published under the name of Gottfried by J. P. Abelinus: De aanmerkenswaardigste land- n zeereise, 8 vol. fol., Leiden, 1707; reprinted in 8 vol. fol., Leiden, 1727.

Historia naturalis et moralis Indiarum.
Fol., Francofurti, 1602;
Latin version made on the Dutch translation of J. H. van Linschoten, and inserted in the Latin edition of the Grands voyages [Narratio regionum Indicarum per Hispanos quondam devastatarum verissima, 13 vol. fol.] by De Bry brothers, at the head of vol. IX, 2nd printing.

The Naturall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies. Intreating of the remarkeable things of Heaven, of the Elements, Metalls, Plants and Beasts which are proper to that Country : Together with the Manners, Ceremonies, Lawes, Governements, and Warres of the Indians.
(by E. Grimstone);
4°, London, 1604.

Natürliche und moralische Geschichte der Indien
(by G. Artus);
Fol., Frankfurt, 1617;
translation made from the Dutch version by J. H. van Linschoten, and inserted in the German collection of the Grands voyages by De Bry brothers, vol. IX.


1592

Apologia pro Theophrasto atque Alexandro Aphrodisiensi de vero tempore ortus et occasus Orionis. [History of ancient classic astronomy]
Attached to the Latin edition 4°, Urbini, 1592, of the treatise by C. Ptolemaus, Inerrantium stellarum apparitiones.


1595

Hyppolyti episcopi canon paschalis [G.], cum J. Scaligeri commentario.
Excerpta ex computo Isaaci Argyri de correctione paschali.
[G.]
J. Scaligeri Elenchus et castigatio anni gregoriani. [Collection of historical works]
4°, Lugduni Batavorum, 1595.

Fol., Lugduni Batavorum, 1606.

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