LANSBERGE Philippe van Uranometriae libri tres. In quibus Lunae, Solis, & reliquorum Planetarum, & inerrantium Stellarum distantiae à Terra & magnitudines, hactenus ignoratae perspicue demonstrantur.

Houzeau & Lancaster, 2981; D.S.B. VIII, 27-28.

First edition.

Philippe van Lansberge (1561-1632) was one of the most influential advocates of the Copernican doctrine in Protestant Europe. He deals in this work with the distances and dimensions of celestial bodies.

“His arrangement of definitions and propositions [in trigonometry] is less complicated and more systematic than that of Viète ad Clavius” (DSB).

Woodcut illustrations in the text. Some usual toning but a fine copy.