Claudius Ptolemy, Cosmographia (Ulm, 1482) [Bk8156]
Printed on paper, with hand-coloured woodcut illustrations (dimensions)
This book was the first atlas to be printed north of the Alps and the first to include modern maps of the world, incorporating new [...]
Johannes de Sacrobosco, Sphaera Mundi (Venice, 1490) [Bk13287]
Printed in Latin on paper, ff. 48 (18.5 x 14 cm). Bound in 19th-century vellum over pasteboard.
The Sphaera Mundi of Sacrobosco, an English astronomer thought to be from Halifax in Yorkshire, explains the spherical geometry of [...]