The Heavens Revealed:
Classics of Astronomy from Ptolemy
to Copernicus to Einstein

All items are from the collection of Professor Jay M. Pasachoff, held on deposit in the Chapin Library, except as noted (*) from the Chapin Library's History of Science collection.

Bible. Latin. Mainz: Johann Gutenberg, [ca. 1455]. One leaf from the "Gutenberg Bible".

Jakob Pflaum, ca. 1450-1500. Calendarium. Ulm: Johannes Zainer, 1478.

*Regiomontanus, 1436-1476. Calendarium. Venice: Bernhard Maler (Pictor), Erhard Ratdolt, Peter Löslein, 1476.

*Peter Apian, 1495-1552. Cosmographicus Liber. Landshut: Johann Weyssenburger, 1524.

Alfonso X, “el Sabio”, King of Castile and Leon, 1221-1284. Tabulae Astronomicae Alfontii Regis Castellae. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 1483.

Hartman Schedel, 1440-1514. Leaf from Liber Chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1493.

*Regiomontanus, 1436-1476. Epytoma in Almagestum Ptolemaei. Venice: Johannes Hamman, 31 August 1496.

Claudius Ptolemy, 2nd Century. Almagestum Cl. Ptolemei. Venice: Petrus Liechtenstein, 10 January 1515. Bound with: Georg Peurbach, 1423-1461, Tabulae Eclypsium Magistri Georgii Peurbachii; and Regiomontanus, 1436-1476, Tabula Primi Mobilis Joannes de Monte Regio. Edited by Georg Tanstetter. Vienna: Johannes Winterburger, 1514.

Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473-1543. De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium. Nuremberg: Johannes Petreius, 1543. *The Chapin Library copy is also shown.

Leonard Digges, ca. 1520-1559?. A Prognostication Everlasting of Ryght Good Effecte. The seconde impression augmented by the author. London: Thomas Gemini, 1556.

Christoph Clavius, 1538-1612. In Sphaeram Ioannas de Sacro Bosco Commentarius. Venice: Bernard Basam, 1596.

*Tycho Brahe, 1546-1601. Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica. Nuremberg: Levinus Hulsius, 1602.

Tycho Brahe, 1546-1601. Astronomiae Instauratae Progymnasmata. Prague: [Heirs of Tycho Brahe], 1602.

Tycho Brahe, 1546-1601. Astronomiae Instauratae Progymnasmata. Frankfurt: Godfried Tambach, 1610.

Johannes Kepler, 1571-1630. Prodromus Dissertationum Cosmographicarum, continens Mysterium Cosmographicum. Tübingen: Georg Gruppenbach, 1596.

*Johannes Kepler, 1571-1630. Ad Vitellionem Paralipomena, quibus Astronomiae Pars Optica Traditur. Frankfurt: Claudius Marnius and the heirs of Jean Aubry, 1604.

Johannes Kepler, 1571-1630. De Stella Nova in Pede Serpentarii, et . . . Trigono Igneo. Pragae: Paulus Sessius [etc.], 1606.

Johannes Kepler, 1571-1630. Astronomia Nova seu Physica Coelestis, Tradita Commentariis de Motibus Stellae Martis, ex Observationibus G.V. Tychonis Brahe. Prague, 1609.

Johannes Kepler, 1571-1630. Harmonices Mundi. Linz: Published by Godfried Tambach, printed by Johann Planck, 1619.

Johannes Kepler, 1571-1630. Tabulae Rudolphinae. [Ulm]: Johann Saur, 1627.

Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642. Sidereus Nuncius. Venice: Apud Thomam Baglionum, 1610.

Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642. Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti: comprese in tre lettere scritte all’illustrissimo Signor Marco Velseri. . . . Rome: Giacomo Mascardi, 1613.

Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642. Dialogo di Galileo Galilei . . . sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano. Florence: Giovanni Battista Landini, 1632.

Simon Marius, 1573-1624. Mundus Iovialis Anno M DC IX Detectus Ope Perspicill Belgici: Hoc est, Quatuor Jovialium Planetarum, cum Theoria, tum Tabulae, Propriis Observationibus Maxime Fundatae. Nuremburg: Johann Laur, 1614.

Johannes Hevelius, 1611-1687. Selenographia. Gdansk: Published by the author, printed by Andreas Hünefeld, 1647.

Isaac Newton, 1642-1727. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. London: Joseph Streater, for Sam. Smith, 1687.

Isaac Newton, 1642-1727. A Treatise of the System of the World. London: Printed for F. Fayram, 1728.

Edmond Halley, 1656?-1742. Tabulae Astronomicae: Accedunt de Usu Tabularum Praecepta. London: William Innys, 1749.

Joseph von Fraunhofer, 1787-1826. Bestimmung des Brechungs- und Farbenzerstreuungs-Vermögens verschiedener Glasarten. Munich: Gedruckt mit Lentner’schen Schriften, [1817].

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955 et al. Annalen der Physik. 4th series, Band 17. Leipzig: Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1905.

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955. Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie. Leipzig: Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1916.

Richard P. Feynman. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985.

STAR ATLASES, ETC.

Alessandro Piccolomini, 1508-1578. De le sfera del mondo . . . [with] De le stelle fisse. Venice: Al Segno del Pozzo, 1540.

Johannes Bayer, 1572-1625. Uranometria. Augsburg: Christophorus Mangus, 1603.

Johannes Hevelius, 1611-1687. Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia Joh. Hevelii. Gdansk: Johann Zacharias Stolle, 1687 [i.e., 1690].

Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, 1671-1750. Atlas Coelestis. Nuremberg: Heirs of Johann Homann, 1742.

John Flamsteed, 1646-1719. Atlas céleste. Seconde édition, par M.J. Fortin. Paris: Chez F.G. Deschamps; chez l’Auteur, 1776.

John Bevis, 1695-1771. Uranographia Britannica (or Atlas Celeste). [London]: Printed 1747-9, published 1786.

Joannis Elerti Bode, 1747-1826. Uranographia. Berlin: Apud Autorem, 1801.

Thomas Jefferys, d. 1771. The Geography of the Great Solar Eclipse of July 14 MDCCXLVIII [1748]: Exhibiting an Accurate Map of All Parts of the Earth in Which It Will Be Visible, with the North Pole, According to the Latest Discoveries by G. Smith Esqr. London: E. Cave, 1748.

Also: six plates from *Etienne Leopold Trouvelot, 1827-1895. Astronomical Drawings. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1881-2.