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| Leonardo DA VINCI Codex Atlanticus 1500, p. 958. |
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| Lorenzo SPIRITO GUALTIERI Le passetemps de la fortune des dez Jean Belot, 1510 (I ed. 1482). |
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| Albrecht DÜRER Underweysung der messung Nürnberg 1525. |
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| Sigismondo FANTI Il Triompho di Fortuna Agostino Zani ad istanza di Iacopo Giunta, Venezia 1526. |
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| Federicus CHRYSOGONUS De modo collegiandi, pronosticandi, et curandi febres, nec non de humana felicitate ac denique de fluxu maris lucubrationes Venezia 1528.Federicus Chrysogonus' astronomical volvelle was used to predict tides by setting the position of the sun and the moon. |
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| Francesco MARCOLINI Le sorti intitolate giardino d’i pensieri 1540. |
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| Petrus APIAN Astronomicum Caesareum Ingolstadt 1540.Among the variety of pages with moving parts comes first and foremost a set of planetary equatoria, paper wheels for finding the places of the planets within the zodiac. Embodying all the details of the geocentric Ptolemaic system, the volvelles and threaded charts provide a remarkably accurate graphical calculation of a planet's position. |
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| Lorenzo SPIRITO GUALTIERI Libro della ventura con somma diligentia revisto e corretto Venturino de Roffinelli, Vinegia 1543 (I ed. 1482). |
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| Lorenzo SPIRITO GUALTIERI Libro della ventura con somma diligentia revisto, corretto e novamente stampato Vinegia 1547 (I ed. 1482). |
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| Gerolamo CARDANO De Subtilitate Vol. 21, Ex officina Michaelis Fezandat et Roberti Grandino, Paris 1550. |
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