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Harmonicon coeleste : or, The cœlestiall harmony of the visible world : conteining, an absolute and entire piece of astronomie. Wherein is succinctly handled the trigonometricall part, generally propounded, and particularly applyed in all questions tending to the diurnall motion. Especially respecting, and truly subservient to the main doctrine of the second motions of the luminaries and the other planets : together with their affections as eclipses &c. Grounded upon the most rationall hypothesis yet constituted, and compared with the best observations that are extant, especially those of Tycho Brahe, and other more modern observators. Fitted to the meridian of the most famous and ancient metropolis London, and principally intended for our English nation, and commended as usefull to all scholers, astronomers, astrologers, divines, physitians, Historiographers, polititians, and poets, by Vincent Wing, philomathemat....

Accession number
PML 151923
Creator
Wing, Vincent, 1619-1668.
Published
London : Printed by R. Leybourn, for the Company of stationers, 1651.
Credit line
Bequest; Miss Julia P. Wightman; 1994.
Notes
Head-pieces; initials.
Title pages of part 2-3 have astronomical diagrams as title vignettes; pt. 4 has a printing ornament. "Tables" and "Canon" have astronomical diagram; "Chiliades" has a printer's device.
The second, third, and fourth books of "Harmonicon coeleste," "Tables of the middle motions and æquations of Sol, Luna, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and Mercury," "Canon triangulorum logarithmicus," and "Chiliades decem logarithmorum" each have special t.-p. included in pagination.
Title within ornamental border.
Description
12 p. l., 304 p : ill. ; 28 cm.
Provenance
Exeter Library copy. From the library of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Contemporary calf.
Classification
Department