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harmonized with the second law of thermodynamics. The experiments on black-bodies due to Lummer and
Pringsheim, Rubens and Kurlbaum forced him from that position; these researches are taken into account in the
present series and are duly acknowledged. - Interlibrum 258,28; Akademie 33,35,38,39.
[Pötzsch, Christian Gottlieb] C. G. Pötzschens ausführliche mineralogische Beschreibung
der gegend um Meißen. Mit Kupfern.- Dresden, in der Waltherischen Hofbuchhandlung, 1777
8° [194 x 115 mm] [12] Bl., 138 pp., [2], with a map [Plan von Meißen] u. 3 [on two sheets]
gefalt. Kupferst. Little later paper covered boards, with red label. $ 2400.-
First edition of this mineral description of Meißen, near Dresden / Saxony. Christian Gottlieb Pötzsch (1732-
1805) was director of the natural history cabinet of the saxonian emperor. Later he worked as finance director.
Pötzsch war seit 1766 Aufseher bei der kurfürstlichen Naturaliensammlung in Dresden.- Lit.: Pogg. II, 479; not
in Schuh, Paul-Gerhard Franke, Adolf Kleinschroth. Kurzbiographien--Hydraulik und Wasserbau (1991). 89 f.-
KVK: Augsburg, München, Nürnberg, Berlin, Rostock, Jena, Halle, etc; COPAC: Bristol, BL London, Imperial
College, OCLC: Bizzell Memorial, Urbana.
Moon photographs in phototypie
Prinz, Wilhelm. Agrandissements de Photographies Lunaires. Uccle, Juillet 1894. Imp.Folio
[650 x 500 mm] [2], 3 plates [= 1 leaf of text & 3 phototypies by Jos Maes, Anvers]. Loose
leafs in contemporary black roan folder, soild, spines torn, margins of leafs worn. Folder
restored. Bookplate of British Astronomical Association on each leaf. $ 4500.-
Very rare. Wilhelm Prinz (1857-1910) was a German-Belgian astronomer and noted for his selenography. Three
plates of Enlargements of Lunar Photographs (Agrandissements de Photographies lunaires) published by Prinz,
of the Belgian Royal Observatory at Uccle, are phototypie reductions, without retouching, of some of the enlargements
which were presented by the author to the Belgian Academy of Sciences in April, 1892. They represent
photographs taken with the great refractor of Lick Observatory, enlarged from ten to a hundred times,
and among other things they illustrate the richness in details of the views taken with that instrument. They are of
special value as permitting a closer study of the details of lunar relief. A question of priority is connected with
this publication, which was made partly to enforce Prinz's claims and partly as a specimen of a proposed atlas.
The photographs represent the circle Copernicus, the crater Bullialdus, Mare Humorum, and Mare Imbrium.-
KVK: Jena, Hamburg; Univ. Chicago Library; Univ. of California, Santa Cruz; not in COPAC.
[Ptolemaeus] Almagestum seu magnae constructionis mathematicae opus plane divinum.
Latina donatum lingua ab Georgius Trapezuntio. Per Luca Gauricum recognitum.-
Venedig: Luc’ Antonio Giunta, 1528. Folio [324 x 222 mm]. [6], 143 num. Bll., [2,
blank]. Title printed in red and black, woodcut diagrams throughout. Title mounted on
blank verso, marginal spotting, dampstain in the bottom margin of the last leaves. Later
vellum, sprinkled edges, spine titled in manuscript, lacking the rear free endpaper, some
soiling. Provenance: Poly-carpus de Burgos (Carmelite Friar at Santa Maria in
Traspontina, Rome, inscription on title verso dated 1754; further title inscription &
drawing in another hand, and marginalia. Alfredo Moretti (bookplate)
$ 9000.-
The edition princes of the first latin version of Ptolemy’s Alamgest to be taken directly from the original greek
text … remained the dominant influence in theoretical astronomy until the close of the 16 th century. The first
latin translation made from the original Greek text of Ptolemy's most important astronomical and mathematical
work. 'Until the innovative work of Tycho Brahe and Kepler in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries,
that is, for nearly fifteen hundred, years, the Almagest was the basis of all sophisti-cated astronomy, a longevity
exceeded only by Euclid's Elements' (Swerdlow). Instruments mentioned or described include the equatorial
armillary, the plinth, the meridional armillary, the triquestrum and the armillary astrolabon. The Almagest had
been translated into Arabic and was known to the later Middle Ages in a Latin translation from the Arabic by
Gerard of Cremona; that version was first published in Venice in 1515.- Adams P 2214; Sander 5972; Renouard
92; Houzeau-L. 865; Sparrow 167; Norman 1760; Honeyman 2251; Stillwell 97n; PMM 40; DSB XI, 187 ff.;
Thorndike IV, 395 f.