12mo. 83 leaves, engraved frontispiece and one engraved plate. No copy was seen for collation.
Quérard III, 155.
This edition not in Lalande, and not in Houzeau.
Jefferson’s manuscript catalogue called also for an octavo edition, not sold to Congress.
Entered by Jefferson without price in his undated manuscript catalogue.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, 1657-1757, French author. This work first appeared in 1686, and was intended to popularize the astronomical theories of
Descartes. Fontenelle was not the author of the seventh
Entretien, added to this edition.
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Derham’s Astrotheology.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 115, no. 3, Derham’s Astro-Theology, 8vo.
DERHAM,
William.
Astro-Theology, or, a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God from a Survey of the Heavens. By W. Derham, Canon of Windsor and F. R. S.
London: Printed for
W. Innys, [?]
1743.
8vo. The Library of Congress Catalogues after that of 1831 (which assigns no date) credit the Jefferson library with an edition
of this work printed in London in 1743. This edition seems to be non-existent. The eighth edition was published in 1741, and
the ninth in 1750.
For
William Derham, see no. 3727. The first edition of
Astro-Theology was published in 1715.
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5
Tychonis Brahé opera
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 116, no. 23, as above.
BRAHE,
Tycho.
Tychonis Brahe Mathim: Eminent: Dani Opera Omnia, sive Astronomiæ Instavratæ Progymnasmata in duas partes distributa, qvorvm prima de restitvtione
motvvm Solis & Lunæ, Stellarum(´q); inerrantium tractat. Secvnda avtem de mvndi ætherei recentioribus phænomensis agit. Anno
m.dc.xlviii. Editio ultima nunc cum Indicibus & Figuris prodit.
Francofvrti: impensis
Ioannis Godofredi Schönvvetteri. [
1648.]
QB3 .B828
4to. 2 parts in 1, 242 and 109 leaves, separate titles, signatures and pagination, printer’s woodcut device on both titles,
diagrams and illustrations in the text, device and colophon on the last page.
Ebert 2910,
note.
Houzeau, page 111, no. 662.
Lalande, pages 138, 225.
Entered by Jefferson on the undated manuscript catalogue with the price
1-16.
Tycho Brahe, 1546-1601, Danish astronomer.
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Hugenii Cosmotheoros.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 115, no. 1, as above.
HUYGENS,
Christiaan.
Christiani Hugenii κοσμοθεωρός, sive de terris cœlestibus, earumque ornatu, conjecturæ . . . Editio altera.
Hagæ-Comitum:
Mœtjens,
m. dc. xcix
. [1699.]
4to. 73 leaves, plates; no copy was seen for collation.
This edition not in Lalande.
Houzeau, page 368, no. 1916.
Christiaan Huygens, 1629-1695, Dutch astronomer, physicist, mathematician and mechanician, was a fellow of the Royal Society, and of other learned
societies.
Cosmotheoros was first published posthumously in 1698. His best known work is the
Horologium
, published in 1658, two years after his application of the pendulum to regulate the movement of clocks.
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