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Hyginus - appointed librarian of the Palatine Library by Augustus
- a Spaniard by birth, active as a teacher and became the
personal friend of Ovid and of Clodius Licinus. His works are
all lost. Perhpas by the same author is a work generally
called Poetica astronomica, a title which lacks all ancient
authority, as does the conventional division into 4 books. It
is based upon some Greek work which had made use
of Eratosthenes, a commentary on Aratos and a star map.
1482 ed. - earliest known representations of the constellations and reduced
figures of the planets, taken from the German Planeten - Buch
of 1468. To this work are appended some Latin verses by
J. Sentinus and J. Santritter of Heilbronn, who assisted Ratdolt
in its preparation. Santritter was not only an author and a poet,
but also a brother printer (worked in partnership sometimes
with Hieronymus de Sanctis; at other times with Dietrich of Wurzburg.
He appears to have been a learned mathemetician and his
skill in astronomy was invoked by Ratdolt in this and perhaps
other publications. The letter press of the Hyginus of 1482
is in Gothic Type similar to that of the Euclid. (See #122)
Erhard Ratdolt (d 1528) was a printer and possibly shop
foreman for Regiomontanus. Upon suspension of the Nuremberg
enterprise in 1474, Ratdot moved to Venice and there became
the 1st commercial publisher to specialize in scientific
texts.
-deals with 42 constellations and the zodiac. Takes from mythology
are added to the overall structure.
HEHL #100942 book begins on a2 - Clarissimi Vui Hyginii Poeticon
Astronomicon. Opus vtilissmvm Foeliciter. Incipit.
1st woodcut on c7 - next section starts c7 -
Clarissimi uiri Hyginii descriptionie formanu
celestiu Astronomicon.
my leaf -b3 (of 8)

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