Document Details De Varietate Rerum - Libri XXII - Basilea:
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- Title: De Varietate Rerum - Libri XXII - Basilea
SubTitle: Of Divers Things - in 17 books - Basel - Author: Girolamo Cardan
- Publisher: ?
Keywords: movement
Other Keywords: first published image
Language: LAT
Bibliography: Baillie 1557; first published 1557 in Basel, subsequently 1558 in Avignion, 1580 in Lyons and 1581 in Basel again. The British museum library has the 1558 and 1581 editions. Also reproduced in Omnia Opera Lyons 1663.
Notes: Jerome Cadran was an italian mechanican and physician, whose books describe various mechanisms. Pge 362 to 369 in Book IX deals with clocks. Describes a fusee, but in nearly incomprehensible terms. Contains the first illustration of a mechanical clock movement
Edition: 1557, 1st edition -- Copyright: 1557
Kind: Book
Type: Timekeeper (general)
Geographic area: Italy
Topic: Mechanics
Organization: NA/other
Pages: 707 -- Height in cm: 30
Print Status: 2 (1 means in print - 2 means out of print)
Entered By: FMM
BHM No: 10228 - Publisher: ?
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