Object Details
- Author
- Galilei, Galileo 1564-1642
- publisher
- Baglioni, Tommaso
- former owner
- Evans, Herbert M (Herbert McLean) 1882-1971 DSI
- donor
- Burndy Library DSI
- Another edition (pirated) was issued in the same year in Frankfurt, Germany, "in Paltheniano".
- Leaves printed on both sides.
- Publisher's device on t.p., with motto: Vera hinc religio.
- Head-pieces; initials.
- Two unnumbered leaves, presenting a diagram of the Pleiades constellation, are inserted between leaf 16 and leaf 17.
- There are 5 copper-engravings showing the lunar surface and phases (1 on leaf 8 recto; 1on leaf 9 verso; 1 on leaf 10 recto; and 2 on leaf 10 verso); three woodcut text diagrams (on leaf 7 recto; leaf 12 verso; and leaf 13 verso); and three woodcut star maps (on leaf [16a] verso; on leaf [16b] recto; and on leaf [16b] verso).
- Signatures: A-C⁴ D⁶ E-G⁴.
- Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.), 7
- Also available online.
- Elecresource
- SCDIRB copy 39088015628597 is imperfect: the diagram of the stars in the Pleiades constellation (leaf [16a] verso) has been closely trimmed, cutting off at least one of the stars. The title leaf has been repaired at the bottom, not affecting the text.
- SCDIRB copy has a printed cancel slip, correcting "Cosmica" to "Medicea", pasted in the heading on leaf B1 recto.
- SCDIRB copy has bookplates: 1. Ex libris Herbert McLean Evans; 2. Burndy Library ..., gift of Bern Dibner.
- SCDIRB copy has a contemporary full vellum binding over thin paper boards; title inked on spine (appears to have been added much later); housed in a modern linen-covered box with printed brown paper spine label.
- 1610
- MDCX [1610]
- Call number
- QB41 .G15 1610b
- QB41.G15
- Type
- Early works to 1800
- Physical description
- 16, [2], 17-28 leaves : ill. ; 24 cm. (4to)
- Place
- Moon
- Jupiter (Planet)
- Title
- Siderevs nvncivs
- Observat. sidereae recens habitae
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Topic
- Astronomy
- Telescopes
- Satellites
- Record ID
- siris_sil_95438
