CELESTIAL COMPUTATIONS FOR THE NEW GREGORIAN CALENDAR
Tabulae Gregorianae Motuum Octavae Sphaerae ac Luminarium. (with) De Corrigendo Ecclesiastico Cal
CELESTIAL COMPUTATIONS FOR THE NEW GREGORIAN CALENDAR
Tabulae Gregorianae Motuum Octavae Sphaerae ac Luminarium. (with) De Corrigendo Ecclesiastico Calendario.
Venice, Petrum Deheuchinum, 1580.
FIRST EDITIONS, large 4to., two works in one, ff. (viii) 50, 88 + 37 (i). Roman letter, woodcut initials and ornaments, a couple of astronomical diagrams in text. 88 leaves of astronomical and mathematical tables in first work, within printed line border, 13 of the ecclesiastical and solar calendar in second, the former printed in red and black. Jesuit library stamp and manuscript case mark in blank portion of title page, early manuscript price at head, de-accession label on fly, marginal worm trails to final leaf, well away from text. A splendid copy, with wide margins and very thick paper, crisp and clean in contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties.
Moleti (1531 – 1588) studied at the Jesuit college in Messina, where he was a pupil of mathematic