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For example, a quarto (from Latin quartō, ablative form of quartus, fourth [3]) historically was a book printed on sheets of paper folded in half twice, with the first fold at right angles to the second, to produce 4 leaves (or 8 pages), each leaf one fourth the size of the original sheet printed – note that a leaf refers to the single piece ...
Two pages from the Ratdolt edition of the De astronomia showing woodcuts of the constellations Cassiopeia and Andromeda.Courtesy of the US Naval Observatory Library. De astronomia (Latin: [deː äs̠t̪rɔˈnɔmiä]; Concerning Astronomy) [nb 1] is a book of stories written in Latin, probably during the reign of Augustus (c. 27 BC – AD 14).
It is a group of technical books, except for the first one, which is a description of the contents of the other treatises. The books are: Libro de la ochava espera, "Book of the eighth sphere" Libro del alcora; Libro del astrolabio redondo, "Book of the round astrolabe" Libro del astrolabio llano, "Book of the flat astrolabe"
Authors are still producing original books in Latin today. This page lists contemporary or recent books (from the 21st, 20th and 19th centuries) originally written in Latin . These books are not called "new" because the term Neo-Latin or New Latin refers to books written as early as the 1500s, which is "newer" than Classical Antiquity or the ...
Book three discusses the signs of the zodiac, which are depicted in this 16th-century manuscript. Books two and three deal mainly with the finer details of the zodiac. [38] Book two opens with a preface in which Manilius presents a brief history of hexameter poetry, singling out Homer and Hesiod. The purpose, Volk argues, is to emphasize the ...
Contemporary Latin is the form of the Literary Latin used since the end of the 19th century. Various kinds of contemporary Latin can be distinguished, including the use of Neo-Latin words in taxonomy and in science generally, and the fuller ecclesiastical use in the Catholic Church – but Living or Spoken Latin (the use of Latin as a language in its own right as a full-fledged means of ...
Tucana (The Toucan) is a constellation in the southern sky, named after the toucan, a South American bird.It is one of twelve constellations conceived in the late sixteenth century by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman.
The first major Arabic work of astronomy is the Zij al-Sindh by Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi. The work contains tables for the movements of the Sun, the Moon, and the five planets known at the time. The work is significant as it introduced Ptolemaic concepts into Islamic sciences. This work also marks the turning point in Arabic astronomy.