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Abraham Zacuto's Almanach perpetuum celestium motuum

facsimile from 1915 of this important work about the suns declination, dating from 1473

Type of object:

Book & Prints

Time period:

Portugal & Spanje

Place:

Munich

Date:

1915

Maker / Author:

Abraham Ben Samuel Zacuto

Publisher / Printer:

Original published by Joseph Vecinho, Augsburg. Re-Published by Munich, J.B. Obernetter Collection

Dimensions:

Material:

paper

Graduation:

335 pag

Inscription:

Zacuto Almanach perpetuum

Provenance:

References:

Image by Austin Neill

Description

Facsimile of the important work of Abraham Ben Samuel Zacuto, a Hebrue astronome born in Salamanca. He published the first declination tables, important to navigate using the sun. This was important when the Poertugues navigators sailed beyond the equator where they couldn't use the Polestar anymore.

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