Ritter
Franciscus
Astrolabium Das ist:Gründliche
Beschreibung
und Unterricht, wie solches ...astronomisches
Instrument...
21
Kupfer, 1613, Christoff, Nürnberg. Einband : Pergament, 4 to, 56/28
Bll., Zustand : 1 Seite Textausriss, Poggendorf No. : II/650.
Bemerkungen : mit Schliessbändern. Erste Ausgabe.Zinner 4437 und
4438(nennt irrig für Teil 1 6 Blatt Vorstücke). Aus der fürstlichen
Bibliothek zu Donaueschingen.Titel mit Besitzeintrag eines Grafen von
Wartenberg.
Benzing,
Die Buchdrucker des
16.
und 17. Jahrhunderts im Deutschen Sprachgebiet, P. 367; Gunther,
Astrolabes of the World, PP- 460,570,593; Thieme-Becker
XII, p. 563, and XXXIII, pp.
431-432; Wolf, Gesch. der
Astronomie, pp. 165-166; Zinner,
Astron. Literatur 4439; Zinner,
Astron.
Instrumente,
P.
492.
Franz
Ritter was a student of J. Praetorius at the University of Altdorf and
served as a minister in Stöckelsheim. He died after 1640. He wrote
several astronomic works, among which a book about the working and
construction of an astrolabe (Zinner 4437), and the accompanying
second part about the use of this instrument (Zinner 4438). The work
received pralse for its lucid exposition. Both parts were published
separately in Nuremberg in 1613 by B. Caymox, who also made the
twenty-one copper engravings in the first part and the fifteen folded
engravings at the end of the second part (Zinner).
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