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Quadrans Apiani astronomicus et iam recens inuentus et nunc primum editus. : Huic adiuncta sunt [et] alia intrumenta obseruatoria perinde noua .

Apian, Peter, 1495-1552 · 1532 · Excusum Ingolstadtii : in officina Apiani · 21 pictures

Quadrans Apiani is a 1532 astronomical instrument treatise printed at Ingolstadt by Peter Apian, a mathematician, for surveyors and astronomers. Its woodcuts show measuring devices and sightlines: a surveyor sighting across a landscape to a town, a dial-shaped quadrant with a zodiac ring, and figures using a crossbow-like sight to measure towers at a distance, with clean geometric lines a designer might borrow for diagrams.

Astronomy · Imprint 1532

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