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.

  • Wing, Vincent, 1619-1668.
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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. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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12 unnumbered leaves, 309 pages : tables, woodcut diagrams ; (folio)

Notes

The second, third, and fourth books of "Harmonicon coeleste," "Tables of the middle motions and æquations of Sol, Luna, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and Mercury," "Canon triangulorum logarithmicus," and "Chiliades decem logarithmorum" each have special t.-p. included in pagination
Copy 1 Note: Issued with Tables of the middle motions and aequations of Sol, etc. [and] Chiliades decem logarithmorum, conteining the logarithmes of all numbers ... to 10000 [i.e. 1000] ... First calculated by ... Henry Briggs.

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Wing W2993
ESTC R21436
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), W2993

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