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Dec 21, 2020 Books of the Week — Elements d’Astronomie and Tables astronomique du Soleil, de la lune, des…

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"We must believe then, that as from hence we see Saturn and Jupiter, if we were in either of the Two, we should discover a great many Worlds which we perceive not, and that the Universe extends so in infinitum." -- Cyrano de Bergerac Elements d'astronomieJacques...

Jul 19, 2019 Today, Rare Books. Tomorrow, the Moon!

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“Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra...

May 02, 2019 We recommend — Shakespeare’s Representation of Weather, Climate and Environment: The Early Modern ‘Fated Sky’

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Mar 14, 2016 Book of the Week — Theatro del mundo y de el tiempo…

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THEATRO DEL MUNDO Y DE EL TIEMP… Giovanni Paolo Gallucci Impresso en Granada en las casas de autor, por su industria, y a su costa por Sebastian Munoz, impressor de libros ano 1607 First published in Venice in 1588 as Theatrum mundi, et temporis, this book...