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Two works on sundials issued together. The second work is by the first Dutch defender of Copernicus

LANSBERGIUS, Phillippus van.
Beschrijvingh der vlacke sonne-wysers: in welcke de waere manier, om deselve op allerhande vlackten te betrecken, volgens wiskonstige regulen geleert, ende door een groot getal vertoog-schetzen aengewesen werdt. Nieuwelijx oversien ende met noodige byvoeging verrijckt, door Jacob Mogge.

Title in red and black, large woodcuts with diagrams throughout, woodcut headpiece.

Title in red and black, large woodcuts with diagrams throughout, woodcut headpiece.

Title in red and black, large woodcuts with diagrams throughout, woodcut headpiece.

Title in red and black, large woodcuts with diagrams throughout, woodcut headpiece.

Title in red and black, large woodcuts with diagrams throughout, woodcut headpiece.



Middelburg, Wilhelmus Goeree, 1675. (Colophon: printed by Thomas Berry, for Zach Folio. Contemporary vellum. Title in red and black, large woodcuts with diagrams throughout, woodcut headpiece. (2), 54, (2) pp.

With:
MOGGE, Jacob. Algemeene manier tot de practijck-oeffeningh der sonne-wysers; uyt d'onfeylbare gronden derselve wetenschap, kort en klaerlijck voorgestelt, en in meer dan hondert voor-beelden vertoont. Middelburg, Wilhelmus Goeree, 1675. (Colophon: printed by Thomas Berry, for Zacharias Roman, 1666). Title in red & black, over 100 large woodcuts, many nearly full-page, with diagrams in text, woodcut headpiece with the coat-of-arms of Zeeland and woodcut historiated initial. (4), 108, (3) pp.

Two important works on sundials, originally published together in 1666; both works are reissues - also published together by the same publisher and in the same year - of the first Dutch editions with a new title.
Ad 1: Reissue of the first Dutch edition of  an important work on sundials by Philippus Lansbergius. The first original edition was published in Latin titled: 'Horologiographia plana, as part of his collected works, Opera Omnia, posthumously published in 1663 by the Middelburg publisher Zacharias Roman who had printed most of the works of  Lansbergius (1561-1632). The text was translated and edited three years later by Jacob Mogge, with the title 'Beschrijving der vlacke sonne-wijzers (Middelburg, Zacharias Roman, 1666), and published together with Mogge's Inleydinge der Sonne-Wysers (Middelburg, Roman, 1666). Lansbergius (Philip van Lansberghe) was a reformed minister and astronomer at Antwerp before he went to the Northern Netherlands after the surrender of the city to Parma in 1585. He matriculated at Leiden University to study theology and mathematics and he developed into one of the first defenders of the heliocentric system in the Netherlands, believing, like Simon Stevin, that Copernicus's theories were physically true. Till 1613 he was a minister at Goes, in that year he settled as a private citizen in Middelburg.
Lansbergius was in contact with many famous men such as Galilei, Chr. Huygens, Hortensius and Keppler, who often made use of Lansbergius's Tabulae. Jacob Cats, Daniel Heinsius and Johannes de Brune and others wrote dedicatory poems for his works.
Ad 2: Reissue of the  work by Jacob Mogge, mathematician and a surveyor from the Dutch province Zeeland, titled ''Inleydinge der Sonne-Wysers (Middelburg, Zacharias Roman, 1666). This work starts with a general introduction on geometry and astronomy and continues with a description of sundials on flat surfaces.
Good copies.- (Spine repaired, binding soiled,; top corner of title of first work restored, back-hinge partly loose; some insign. staining throughout).
Ad 1: Poggendorff, 1373-4; Bierens de Haan 3287; Crone Library 281; Houzeau- Lancaster 11499; Van der Aa, Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden V, p. 282 (Mogge); NNBW II, 775-82 (Lansbergius); DSB 8, pp. 27-8. Ad 2: Bierens de Haan 3286; Crone Library 283; Houzeau-Lancaster11524.

Related Subjects: Astronomy  Astronomy & Cosmography  Navigation  Science  Sundials 

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