Physical Object: De vero telescopii inventore : cum brevi omnium conspiciliorum historia…
Information About This Item
Creator
Borel, Pierre, 1620?-1671
Title
De vero telescopii inventore : cum brevi omnium conspiciliorum historia : ubi de eorum confectione, ac usu, seu de effectibus agitur, novaque quaedam circa ea proponuntur : accessit etiam centuria observationum microcospicarum
Publisher
Hagae-Comitum [The Hague] : Ex typographia Adriani Vlacq
Date
M.DC.LV [1655]
Extent
3 volumes in 1 ([10], 67, [1], 63, [1], 45, [4] pages, [3] leaves of plates (1 folded)) : illustrations (2 portraits, woodcuts) ; 20 cm (4to)
Description
Woodcut portraits of Zacharias Jansen and Hans Lipperhey signed: "Berckman. J. v. Meurs sculp."
Includes index.
Errata notes on final page.
Signatures: )?(² A-R⁴ ²A-F⁴
"Liber secundus de conspiciliis" has drop-head title page and separate pagination sequence; register is continuous.
"Observationum microcospicarum [that is, microscopicarum] centuria" has separate title page, dated 1656, separate pagination sequence, index and separate register.
Includes the first announcement of Huygens' discovery of the rings of Saturn, with pronouncement in form of an anagram at end of text: "Christiani Hugenii de Saturni luna observatio nona"--Page 62-63 second sequence
Includes index.
Errata notes on final page.
Signatures: )?(² A-R⁴ ²A-F⁴
"Liber secundus de conspiciliis" has drop-head title page and separate pagination sequence; register is continuous.
"Observationum microcospicarum [that is, microscopicarum] centuria" has separate title page, dated 1656, separate pagination sequence, index and separate register.
Includes the first announcement of Huygens' discovery of the rings of Saturn, with pronouncement in form of an anagram at end of text: "Christiani Hugenii de Saturni luna observatio nona"--Page 62-63 second sequence
Vellum binding.
Subject
Jansen, Zacharias, > 1588-1632.
Lippershey, Hans.
Telescopes > Early works to 1800.
Microscopes > Early works to 1800.
Optics > Early works to 1800.
Scientific apparatus and instruments > Early works to 1800.
Astronomy > Early works to 1800.
Saturn (Planet) > Early works to 1800.
Télescopes > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Microscopes > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Optique > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Appareils et instruments scientifiques > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Astronomie > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Saturne (Planète) > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Astronomy.
Microscopes.
Optics.
Scientific apparatus and instruments.
Telescopes.
Saturn (Planet)
Lippershey, Hans.
Telescopes > Early works to 1800.
Microscopes > Early works to 1800.
Optics > Early works to 1800.
Scientific apparatus and instruments > Early works to 1800.
Astronomy > Early works to 1800.
Saturn (Planet) > Early works to 1800.
Télescopes > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Microscopes > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Optique > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Appareils et instruments scientifiques > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Astronomie > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Saturne (Planète) > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Astronomy.
Microscopes.
Optics.
Scientific apparatus and instruments.
Telescopes.
Saturn (Planet)
Early works.
Early works.
Sammelbands.
Vellum bindings.
Contributor
Vlacq, Adriaan, 1600-1667 (Printer)
Meurs, Jacob van, 1619-1680 (Engraver)
Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695
Format
Book
Language
Latin