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Today's manuscript is a manuscript copy of the Calendarium and Ephemerides as published by Regiomontanus in 1474. The Calendarium, for 1475-1530, gives information on lunar and solar eclipses, the length of days, and the signs of the zodiac and planets. It includes many tables and diagrams.
Record:
Access '[Calendarium and ephemerides].' through the Penn Libraries catalog.
Complete Video Orientation:
Video orientation to LJS 300 -Calendarium and ephemerides, by Joannes Regiomontanus. Written in Lambach, Austria, ca. 1500, in Latin. LJS 30
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It's quite nice. It's big. You can see it's quite thick. It has these tabs so
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it's easier for you to find your place in the book. The binding is original. It's
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leather over boards and it has one of the remaining original clasps and the
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bosses. It's quite nice. What the epheremities are are a series of tables
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that for every year give the position of the Sun and the Moon and the planets
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for every day of the year. It can help you do things like calculate when
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there are going to be eclipses. Here at the front of the book, the start of
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the book, and then at other places throughout there are these diagrams of
when someone says "why would you want a physical copy of that? you can just stream it" i physically recoil. a feeling of dread comes over me like an evil spirit just passed through my body
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