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Treatise on the equinox by the 'Light of Leiden University'

SCALIGER, Josephus Justus.
De aequinoctiorum anticipatione diatriba. Nunc primum edita.

With printer's device on the title and 5 woodcuts with mathematical figures in the text. Some interesting woodcut initials and headpieces.

With printer's device on the title and 5 woodcuts with mathematical figures in the text. Some interesting woodcut initials and headpieces.

With printer's device on the title and 5 woodcuts with mathematical figures in the text. Some interesting woodcut initials and headpieces.

With printer's device on the title and 5 woodcuts with mathematical figures in the text. Some interesting woodcut initials and headpieces.



Paris, Hieronymus Drouart, 1613. 4to. Contemporary plain vellum, rests of ties. With printer's device on the title and 5 woodcuts with mathematical figures in the text. Some interesting woodcut initials and headpieces. (8), 96 pp.

Original edition of this rare work by the famous Leiden professor Josephus Justus Scaliger (1540-1609), posthumously edited by his student Janus Rutgersius (1589-1625), who lived in Paris till 1613 and who dedicated this work to Pierre Dupuy, one of the Paris scholars with whom Rutgersius was on friendly terms. His dedicatory letter is on f. (3)-(6) and dated Paris, 23 May 1613. After Scaliger's work follows a excerpt of the letter of Josephus Scaliger to David Rivaldus, dated Leiden, 16 April 1604 on p. 91-6.
This work on the times that, twice a year, day and night each last twelve hours is written by one of the most learned critics at the turn of the sixteenth century. Scaliger was born in Aachen and began his studies at Bordeaux. Soon after he went to Paris where he attended the university, achieving wide renown  as a brilliant scholar. His fame was such that the Leiden Academy, offered him an honorary professorship, where he stayed until his death. His erudition was extraordinary and his writings numerous treating on philosophy, mathematics, classical literature, history and astronomy. His most widely known work is De emendatione temporum (1583).

Very good and clean copy written ownership's entry on the title: 'Ex Bibl. Guil. DeWal'(?).
Bernays, Joseph Justus Scaliger (1855); the NCC mentions 1 copy only (Univ. Library, Leiden).

Related Subjects: 17th Century  Astronomy & Cosmography  Horology  Leyden 

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