Fortune

Tractatus de astronomia sphaerica. De geographia astronomica. Quaestiones de astronomia sphaerica et geographia astronomica. Titles within ornamental pen-drawn borders: illustrated with pen-drawn diagrams and figures partly coloured, with 4 engraved folding plates and an allegorical frontispiece of 'Astronomia' inserted. Produced in Louvain.

1787-1788

1 volume 2 ll. + 114 pp. + 84 pp. 8vo. 20 × 14 cm. Original half-calf binding much damaged.

Purchased 1909.

Lecture notes written by 'J. Colin de Chastrevin Collegii Standonck'. No particulars have been ascertained as to the author of these lectures. He is described on the t.p. of the second work (p. 73) as 'In maximo porcensi paedagogio professor primarius'.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).