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Colonia Agrippinae, Apud Haeredes Arnaldi Birckmanni, 1581. 16°, pp. 256 with 62 astronomical figures n.t. and a folded table f.t. , restoration on the title page, mostly burnished copy, contemporary binding in full soft parchment, calligraphic title.
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In 1446 he began his studies at the University of Vienna. After 1448 he made a long journey to Germany, France and Italy, where he held lectures in various cities. In Italy he met various exponents of the culture of the time, such as Giovanni Bianchini (15th century) in Ferrara and Nicola Cusano (c. 1400-1464) in Rome. Returning to his homeland, in 1453 he was appointed professor at the University of Vienna. Here he applied himself to the study of the astronomical work of Claudius Ptolemy (2nd century), which he tackled together with his student Johann Müller (Regiomontanus; 1436-1476). In 1454 Peurbach finished the composition of the Theoricae novae planetarum, published only in 1474 by Regiomontano in Nuremberg and then republished and translated several times. The work exposed in an elementary way the geocentric astronomy of the Almagest mediated by the particular cosmological structure of crystalline spheres devised by some Islamic astronomers of the 13th and 14th centuries. After 1457 Peurbach became astrologer to Emperor Frederick III (1415-1493). Around 1459 he completed the Tabulae eclipsium, printed only in 1514, where he tabulated the motions of the Moon and the Sun to allow the accurate prediction of the relative eclipses. In 1460 he met Cardinal Bessarione (1403-1472) who was visiting Vienna as Papal Legate. The latter, knowing the Greek language, inspired in Peurbach the desire to approach the original Greek manuscripts and proposed to accompany him on a trip to Italy. Peurbach welcomed the idea and also thought about undertaking a new translation of Ptolemy's Almagest. Unfortunately, his premature death prevented him from implementing both projects. It was Regiomontanus who followed Bessarion to Italy and completed the Epytoma in Almagestum Ptolemei, printed for the first time in Venice in 1496.
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