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Paper manuscript exemplified by G. Naldi in 1871 on the model of the "Sybil Celestial Ephemeris of the Year 1762 of Turino" and on other astronomy texts, 271 pp. numbered, elegant title page depicting an armillary sphere, calculations, schemes, drawings, tables, diagrams etc., some elegantly drawn and colored, coeval binding in half parchment and brown spotted cardboard.
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Intriguing astronomical manuscript with an apparent compilation aspect, as stated on the title page, in reality the result of a reasoned selection of texts, treatises, and rules of Astronomy from different sources, the work of a certain Gaetano Naldi "for fun, or for not being idle, copied for my use in the years 1870 and 1871. " The four initial pages of the Index clearly outline Naldi's field of interest, these are the titles of the various sections: Of the Calendar in general, of the Civil calendar, of Lunations, of Stations, of Eclipses, of Epochs ... of the Solar Cycle, of the Number of Gold, Mobile Parties etc. In 104 chapters the interesting collection collected by Naldi is distributed, diligently expressed, outlined and drawn, for his personal use and for future readers. A sort of astrological breviary of the late nineteenth century, in a phase of incipient scientific revolution, which saw Turin as one of the undisputed capitals. The Celestial Sibyl, exemplum mentioned by Naldi, was published in Turin from 1751 to 1885 and represented one of the most innovative astronomical texts of the time. There were essays on astronomical and geographic themes that were spread in an easy and usable way even for an audience of non-specialists. This source of inspiration can be found throughout the manuscript, but Naldi was then able to summarize other suggestions, of a different nature, to the point of creating a complete course in astronomy updated at the end of the nineteenth century. & Nbsp;