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Ephemerides motuum coelestium ex anno MDCCXV in annum MDCCXXV ... e Cassinianis tabulis ad meridianum bononiae supputatae. Tomus I (-II) by MANFREDI, Eustachio
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Bologna: Costantino Pisarro, 1715. First edition. Two volumes in one. Quarto (269 x 186 mm). [16], 143, [1], 179, [1 (blank)]; [4], 373, [1 (blank)] pp., title and some tables printed in red and black, illustration: woodcut device on title-pages, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, woodcut diagrams, fifteen (of which thirteen are maps) folding engraved plates. [With:] Novissimae ephemerides... tomus I (-II). Ex anno 1726 in annum 1737 (ex anno 1738 in anno 1750). Bologna: Costantino Pisarro, 1725. First edition. Two volumes in one. Quarto (270 x 189 mm.). [20], 383, [1 (blank)]; [2], 415, [1] pp., illustration: woodcut device on title-pages, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, woodcut diagrams, fifteen folding engraved plates Uniformly bound in contemporary dark brown sheep, spine compartments rich gilt, red morocco lettering labels, marbled endpapers. One endpaper lacking, a very small amount of worming to lower part of joint of first volume. Overall, a very handsome and complete set. First edition and a complete set in matching bindings of one of the author's most important works. Manfredi (1674-1739), the most distinguished member of the well-known family of mathematicians, was a professor of mathematics at the University of Bologna and a founder of the Institute of Bologna. A member of many scientific societies, including the Royal Society of London, Manfredi is particularly known for his elaborate ephemerides and his general works on astronomy. "In 1715 Manfredi completed his two-volume Ephemerides motuum coelestium for 1715-1725, based on the still unpublished tables of Cassini in Paris, his predecessor in the chair of astronomy at Bologna. Intended, unlike most of its predecessors, not for astrological use but for practical astronomy, the ephemerides were of unusual extent and practicality. They included tables of the meridian crossing of the planets, tables of the eclipses of the satellites of Jupiter and of the conjunction of the moon and the principal stars, as well as maps of the regions of the earth affected by solar eclipses. The Ephemerides were preceded by a volume of instructions including tables that were reprinted by Eustachio Zanotti in 1750. In 1725 Manfredi published a similar, highly successful work for the periods 1726-1750 that in some ways anticipated the Nautical Almanac (1776)" (DSB IX) Houzeau & Lancaster 15461; Riccardi ii, 80 & 83
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