Usus quadrantis astronomici geometrici : das ist: Beschreibung des Gebrauchs eines astronomische[n] und geometrischen Quadranten, welcher zu vielen schönen und nützlichen Sachen zugebrauchen, deren Verzeichnuss am 9. Blat zufinden. Allen der Astronomy und Geometry Liebhabern sehr nützlich und dienstlich. / Verfertiget und beschrieben durch M. Eberhardum Welperum, der mathematischen Künsten Liebhabern.
1661
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Usus quadrantis astronomici geometrici : das ist: Beschreibung des Gebrauchs eines astronomische[n] und geometrischen Quadranten, welcher zu vielen schönen und nützlichen Sachen zugebrauchen, deren Verzeichnuss am 9. Blat zufinden. Allen der Astronomy und Geometry Liebhabern sehr nützlich und dienstlich. / Verfertiget und beschrieben durch M. Eberhardum Welperum, der mathematischen Künsten Liebhabern.
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Zu finden in Nürnberg : Bey Paulus Fürsten Kunsthändlern, [1661?]
Description
40 [i.e. 38] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; (4to)
Associated name
Welper, Eberhard, active 1609-1668, author.
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FAST ACC 270937 (quarto)
Folger-specific note
Purchase made possible by The Kathrine Dulin Folger and Family Acquisitions Endowment. From dealer's description: First published in Strasbourg in 1619, this is an enlarged edition of Welper’s description of his quadrant to be used by astronomers, navigators, and engineers. The folding plate with the paper instrument (Quadrans Astronomicus et Geometricus M. Eberhardi Welperi Astrophili, editus A(nn)o 1661) is often missing, because it was pasted to wood to use it as an instrument. Eberhard Welper (1590–1664) studied astronomy at Tübingen and taught mathematics at the University of Strasbourg where he was also active as an instrument and calendar maker and as a publisher. Paul Fürst (1608–1666), art dealer and also a publisher from Nürnberg, published mainly engravings and pamphlets, so that he became known as “Bildermann”. In addition, he brought out numerous copper engravings. Around the middle of the 17th cent., Paul Fürst reprinted older works with paper instruments, like the engravings of the globe stripes of Johannes Oterschaden, the globe gores and paper instruments of Isaac Habrecht and those by Eberhard Welper. Nuremberg was one of the European center of scientific instrument makers and these paper instruments had have a market there. The new technology of printing had an important bearing on the diffusion of paper instruments, such as volvelles or cut-out quadrants. The accurate plates were intended to be used after cutting them out and pasting them on wooden frames. That’s is why often the instrument plate is missing. (see: Andrew Hunter (ed.) Thornton and Tully’s scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors. A study. (2000). VD17 23:277216C (most copies in German libraries are missing the plate / Beil.) WorldCat locates no copy in North America; Zinner, Instrumente, p. 583–(listing the German ed.). Theodor Hampe: Paulus Fürst und sein Kunstverlag. Mitteilungen aus dem Germanischen Nationalmuseum 1914/15, S. 3-127; 1920/21, S. 137-170; Lore Sporhan-Krempel; Th. Wohnhaas: Zum Nürnberger Buch-handel und graphischem Gewerbe im 17. Jahrhundert. Archiv für die Geschichte des Buchwesens 13 (1973), Sp. 1021-1080.." Antiquariat Michael Kühn D 9250, 2018-11-09, Cat. no 55.
Folger accession
270937