Harmonicon coeleste : or, The coelestiall harmony of the visible world / conteining, an absolute and entire piece of astronomie. Wherein is succinctly handled the trigonometricall part, generally propounded, and particularly applyed in all questions tending to the diurnall motion. Especially respecting, and truly subservient to the main doctrine of the second motions of the luminaries and the other planets : together with their affections as eclipses &c. Grounded upon the most rationall hypothesis yet constituted, and compared with the best observations that are extant, especially those of Tycho Brahe, and other more modern observators ... By Vincent Wing, philomathemat. ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wing, Vincent, 1619-1668.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Astronomy--Early works to 1800.

Astronomy.

Logarithms--Early works to 1800.

Logarithms.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, John, fl. 1757 (autograph)

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered pages, 309 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm (folio)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by R. Leybourn, for the Company of stationers, 1651.

Notes:

The second, third, and fourth books of "Harmonicon coeleste," "Tables of the middle motions and quations of Sol, Luna, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and Mercury," "Canon triangulorum logarithmicus," and "Chiliades decem logarithmorum" each have special t.-p. included in pagination.

Local Notes:

Imperfect: p. 309 wanting, supplied in manuscript.

Cited in:

Wing W2993

OCLC:

3121742