Hyginus, Poetica astronomica (Poetic Astronomy)

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Hyginus, Poetica astronomica (Poetic Astronomy)

Italian (Venice), 1482

Language: Latin

woodcut illustrations
height 21 cm

University of Oregon Library, Special Collections and University Archives Rare Book Collection: QB22.H9

 

Diebold, William. The Illustrated Book in the Age of Printing: Books and Manuscripts from Oregon Collections. Portland, OR: Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, 1993, cat. no. 21, p. 24 - Quoted with permission

Printing was crucial to early modern European astronomical discoveries (e.g., Galileo, Copernicus), but the astronomy underlying the descriptions of the constellations in this printed book, which contains a text written by the ancient author Hyginus, and the rather schematic woodcuts of them, has more to-do with medieval than modern science.

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University of Oregon - Public Access
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University of Oregon
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Prints and Printed Books
Keywords: 
Hyginus, Astronomy
Creator: 
Ratdolt, Erhard (German printer, publisher, 1477-1528)
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Image reproduced with permission from University of Oregon Library. The institutions that house the specific Medieval Portland objects ultimately hold the rights to their image and reproduction; the images are provided here as a courtesy by those institutions and are for non-profit, educational use only.
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