Transitus Veneris : ante discum solis, cum tabula, anno 1874…

Full title: Transitus Veneris : ante discum solis, cum tabula, anno 1874, die 9 Decembris Europae, ante meridiem spectabilis : cujus elementa, & phases Veneris ope parallaxium longitudinis & latitudinis ex tabulis de la caille & cassini pro celebrioribus mundi meridianis supputata sunt : accedunt solis distantiae a terra, diameter & magnitudo in milliaribus Germanicics ope parallaxis ejusdem solis ed postremo transitu Veneris anni 1769 definitae, distantiae vero planetarum a terra & magnitudines ex eorundem parallaxibus deductae & geometrice exhibitae a P. Ignatio Kautsch, ordinis scholarum Piarum emerito missionario Castrensi.

Author(s): Ignatz Kautsch (1729-1812)

Location:

Harvard University – Houghton Library, Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson, Early Modern Books and Manuscripts; Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Shelf mark:

Houghton ZCC7.K1683.784

Publication information:

Brunae : Litteris Swobodianis, Joanne Siedler factore, [between 1780 and 1784?]

Notes:

Author’s copy with inserted slips of ms. corrections and annotations, a few edits in ink and in pencil to the text, inscription by an early owner on title page reads, “Bibliotheca Litomissliensis Scholar Piarum A. 1803”, mounted on rear free endpaper is a ms. leaf summarizing the costs of printing the book.

Digital copy:

None available

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