Monographia seù sphera elementaris et armillaris : manuscript, [ca. 1620]

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Monographia seù sphera elementaris et armillaris : manuscript, [ca. 1620]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612830762

Unpaginated manuscript with numerous drawings in ink; includes mention of the comet of 1618. Concerns the Copernican and Tychonian systems, comets, armillary spheres, the zodiac, and the Meridian and Equinoctial circles. Also describes the geography of America, including California, Nova Hispania, Florida, Virginia, Norimbega (New England), and Nova Francia.

[197] p., bound : ill. ; 14 cm.

Houghton Library

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Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543

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Wheatland, David P.

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