CLEOMEDES (1st century or early 2nd century AD). \KKuklikh Qewria Eie Biblia B\k. Nunc primum typis excusa prodit. Paris: Conrad Neobarius [colophon: J. Lodoicus and D. Jacobus], 1539. Small 4° (191 x 143mm). (Some stains to early quires, quire \Ki\k misbound, spotting to final leaves, block split.) 19th-century limp boards, titled in manuscript on spine. Provenance: one early manuscript correction and a few pen marks.
FIRST EDITION of Cleomedes's elementary two-part handbook of astronomy ('Circular Theory of the Heavens'). Using Posidonius as it's main authority, it describes the stoic view of the spherical cosmos, permeated by "pneuma" and surrounded by the limitless void ... with the spherical earth stationary at the centre' (DSB III, pp. 318-20). Adams C-2175.
CLEOMEDES (1st century or early 2nd century AD). \KKuklikh Qewria Eie Biblia B\k. Nunc primum typis excusa prodit. Paris: Conrad Neobarius [colophon: J. Lodoicus and D. Jacobus], 1539. Small 4° (191 x 143mm). (Some stains to early quires, quire \Ki\k misbound, spotting to final leaves, block split.) 19th-century limp boards, titled in manuscript on spine. Provenance: one early manuscript correction and a few pen marks.
FIRST EDITION of Cleomedes's elementary two-part handbook of astronomy ('Circular Theory of the Heavens'). Using Posidonius as it's main authority, it describes the stoic view of the spherical cosmos, permeated by "pneuma" and surrounded by the limitless void ... with the spherical earth stationary at the centre' (DSB III, pp. 318-20). Adams C-2175.
