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.

  • Vincent Wing
Date:
1651
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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