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Kalendarium

Regiomontanus, Johannes (1436-1476) · Ratdolt, Erhard (1447-1528) (Venise) · 4 pictures

Kalendarium is an incunable astronomical and calendrical treatise by Regiomontanus (1436-1476), printed in Venice by Erhard Ratdolt, aimed at scholars and astronomers of the late fifteenth century. The pictures are crisp woodcut diagrams of sundials, a moon-phase instrument with a central sun engraving, and eclipse charts with red and black disks, offering a designer clean geometric linework, radiating sun motifs, and early printed tabular layouts.

Sciences et arts · Incunables · Incunabula

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