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Cosmographicus liber Petri Apiani mathematici,

Apian, Peter, 1495-1552, Gemma, Frisius, 1508-1555, Gemma, Frisius, 1508-1555. Libellus de locorum describendorum ratione · 1533 · [Antwerp] : Væneunt in pingui Gallini per Arnoldum Birckman. · 16 pictures

A 1533 Antwerp cosmography by mathematician Peter Apian, with Gemma Frisius's treatise on describing places, printed for scholars and navigators. The pictures are rows of hand-printed circular diagrams of the moon in its phases and eclipses, each labelled with a date, hours and minutes, and month names in Latin; a designer might draw on their tidy grid of dark and pale disks and their classic woodcut texture.

Cosmography · Geography

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