De Titus, Didacus Placidus; [tr. Anonymous]; ed. Cooper, John ‘Primum Mobile, with Theses to the Theory, and Canons for Practice; wherein is demonstrated, from Astronomical and Philosophical Principles, the Nature and Extent of Celestial Influx upon the Mental Faculties and Corporeal Affections of Man; containing the Most Rational and Best Approved Modes of Direction, both in Zodiac and Mundo: exemplified in Thirty Remarkable Nativities of the Most Eminent Men in Europe, According to the Principles of the Author, laid down in his “Celestial Philosophy.” – Originally written in Latin, By Didacus Placidus de Titus, Mathematician to His Serene Highness Leopold William, Archduke of Austria. – The whole carefully translated, and corrected from the best Latin editions. Illustrated with Notes and an Appendix, containing several useful Additions to the Work, by John Cooper, Teacher of the Mathematics’ Printed and Published by Davis and Dickson, No. 17, St. Martin’s le Grand, Newgate Street, Cheapside, London, undated[1].
Modern custom cloth (light wear to extremities of spine hinges and outer corners of boards) with printed paper title label to spine. [Frontis.] + [1 leaf] + [pp. iii-xv] + [1] + [plate] + 322 + [1] + [pp. 324-384 of tables] + [1] + [pp. 386-423 of tables] + [pp. 424-456] + [pp. 457-462 of tables]
[1] Library records show 1814
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Carefully scanned in full colour from our complete original printing of the 1814 first edition thus.
John Cooper edited and published the first complete one-volume edition in English translation of celebrated Italian Renaissance astrologer Placido de Titis’s Tabulae Primi Mobilis (1657) in 1814. The text translation was selectively edited by Cooper from the one previously appearing in the earlier two-volume edition of Manoah Sibly (1789), and was supplemented by the first authentic reproduction of Placido’s original tables, to which Sibly did not have access at the time of his late 18th century edition.