[Astronomy etc.] Philipi Lansbergii astronimi celeberrimi, opera omnia.

Middelburg, Z. Roman, 1663, 8 titles in 9 parts in one volume, with engraved title, portrait, many engraved plates and woodcut illustrations in the text [the plates further described below], many letterpress tables (1x large folding), contemporary turned vellum, small folio (quires in 4to).

Good copy with the following minor defects: old owner's name to half title and on p. *; occ. trifle waterstained; top endpapers sl. creased/ frayed due to the starting vellum; small other internal defects. Binding trifle soiled. Philippus Lansbergen (Ghent, 25 August 1561 - Middelburg, 8 December 1632) (or Johan Philip Lansberg) was a Flemish-Dutch minister, mathematician and physicist/ astronomer. Among the 16th-century Dutch ministers, he was the only one to defend the course of the Earth around the Sun (instead of the geocentric opposite). His work is characterised by the examination of the dominant ideas of his time to scientific standards. Lansbergen was also one of the first scientists to publish in German, contributing to the popularisation of his fields. This rare convolute is a collection of previously issued works by Lansberge, preserving the original title pages. The paging is as follows: (14),88,(4),89-118; (10),74,(2 blank); 28,(2),(2 blank); 25,(3); (6),53,(1); (8),34,(2 blank); (12),41,(1); (2),180; 181,(3); (4),103,(3 blank) p. Contains with separate title page, paging and signing: (1) Triangulorum geometriæ, 1663; (2) Unranometriae, 1662; (3) In quadrantem tum astronomicvm, tum geometricum; nec non in astrolabium introductio, 1635, with very fine title engraving and 2 double-page plates of quadrants (tips trimmed off on sides); (4) Spaera plana à Ptolemaeo astrolabium dicta, 1636, with 2 double-page plates of astrolabia (1x folding); (5) Horologiographia plana, 1663, very profusely provided with woodcut illustrations in the text; (6) Commentationes in motum terrae, 1660, 1 double-page plate; (7) Tabulae motuum coelestium perpetuae, 1653, 2 parts, the first part mostly tables as indicated in the title, the second part "Theoricae motuum coelsetium novae, & genuinae; (8) Chronologiæ sacræ, 1662.