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Speculum uranicum aquilae romanae sacrum das ist Him[m]els Spiegel darinnen ausser denen ordentlichen auch die ungewöhnlichen Erscheinungen des Himmels mit gebührenden Anfüuhrungen abgebildet. Vornehmlich abder der im gestirne des Adlers jüngsthin entstandene Comet [etc.] (Verzeichnis dere Cometen so vor und nach Christi geburt... beobachtet worden...).

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Frankfurt : Thomas M. Goetze, (Jena: printed by S. Krebs), 1661, ff. [4], 42, [12]pp., illustration: additional engraved title and frontispiece, 4 woodcut astronomical plates and 2 illustrations in text (white on black), engraved title

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Frankfurt : Thomas M. Goetze, (Jena: printed by S. Krebs), 1661, ff. [4], 42, [12]pp., illustration: additional engraved title and frontispiece, 4 woodcut astronomical plates and 2 illustrations in text (white on black), engraved title

Ibid. Fortsetzung des Him[m]els Spiegels darinnen ausser dem andern Theil der teutschen Himmels-Kunst vornehmlich der zu Ende des 1664sten Jahres entstandene und bis zum Anfang des 1665 sten fortscheinenden grosse Comet… beschrieben, [etc.]. Jena: S. Krebs for T.M. Goetze, [1665], [6], 126, [2]pp., illustration: engraved frontispiece, folding leaf with woodcut diagrams on both sides at p.13, frontispiece
Ibid. Speculum terrae, das ist Erd-Speigel darinnen der Erd Creiss nach seiner Eigenschaften an Land und Wasser: nach denen Völckern und Winwohnern seiner Länder… in gewissen Zonen und Climen: sampt andern geographischen Anmerckungen abgebildet und zugleich der helleuctende neue Comet welcher in Merz und April desd 1665sten Jahrs erschienen… beschrieben wird. Jena: S. Krebs etc., 1665, [6], 100pp., illustration: engraved frontispiece (world map), frontispiece.

3 works in one volume, 4to (185 x 130mm.),English eighteenth-century mottled calf, gilt spine, blue marbled edges.

Astronomer and an important figure in German intellectual life in the second half of the seventeenth century, Erhard Weigel was a professor at Jena, author of a very large number of books, a mathematician, astronomer and philosopher, he taught Leibnitz, on whom his influence was to have far-reaching effects. Through him Leibnitz began to understand the importance of the method of mathematical proof for subjects such as logic and philosophy. Weigel believed that number was the fundamental concept of the universe.

 

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