The planetarium of Giovanni de Dondi citizen of Padua : a manuscript of 1397 / translated [from the Latin] by G.H. Baillie ; with additional material from another Dondi manuscript translated [from the Latin] by H. Alan Lloyd ; translations edited by F.A.B. Ward.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Latin Series: Monograph (Antiquarian Horological Society) ; no. 9.Publisher: London : Antiquarian Horological Society, 1974Edition: [1st English edition]Description: viii, 156 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
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- 9780901180100
- 0901180106
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Annotated English translation of the 1397 Latin manuscript, describing Dondi's planetarium. The original manuscript on parchment measures 430x280 mm, and consists of 43 folios in two columns. The date appears across the cover sheet (1397) . The manuscript (BHM 7015) is at the Bibliotheca Nazionale Mancinao, Venezia (Italy) and catalogued under number " Cod.85, membr.saec XIV, a. 440 I.278, (L, VIII, XVII.) Ioannis Dondi "Planetarium" Partes tres, folia 43". The planatarium (long lost) was made in Padua by the physician Giovanni de Dondi, now usually called Giovanni de Dondi dall'orologgio 1348 to 1364
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