[Astronomy/Kepler] Kepler, Johannes : EPITOME ASTRONOMIAE COPERNICANAE. USED FORM QUAESTIONUM & RESPONSIONUM CONSCRIPTA INQ. VII LIBROS DIGESTA, QUORUM TRES PRIORES SUNT DE DOCTRINA SPHAERICA … AUTHORE JOANNE KEPPLERO. Lentijs ad Danubium, 1618, excudebat Johannes Plancus.

Seventeenth-century scientific illustration with the First edition (Linz, 1618) of the first volume (Books I-III) of the collection of studies on the heliocentric system by Johannes Kepler (1571-1630, German astronomer and mathematician). In it, K. illustrated the Copernican system against the backdrop of a reorganization of astronomical science, now divided into five areas: historical, optical, physical, arithmetic and mechanical. Each of these respectively included observations, hypotheses, bases for hypotheses, tables, calculations and instruments. Divided into seven books, published between 1618 and 1621, the Epitome covers much of Kepler's earlier thought, as well as his later positions on physics, metaphysics and archetypes. Because of the book's support for heliocentrism, the first volume was placed on the Index of Prohibited Books on 28 February 1619. A good copy with light foxing and browning, a slight marginal water stain; small defects such as trimming of 2 leaves (**2 and **3) down to the text; restoration to the lower corner of the first 8 leaves. See Carli-Favaro 76, 92; Caspar 55, 66, 69; Cinti 60, 72, 67; Houzeau-Lancaster 11831; PMM 112; Sotheran I, 114; Treccani.