Sign In

- Or use -
Forgot Password Create Account

Giovanni Antonio Magini was an accomplished Italian cartographer, astronomer, astrologer, and mathematician—in short, a Renaissance man. Born in Padua, he studied philosophy in Bologna. His first publication was Ephemerides coelestium motuum, an astronomical treatise published in 1582. In 1588 he was selected, over Galileo Galilei, to fill the chair of mathematics at the University of Bologna. He died in that city in 1617.

Magini operated under a geocentric understanding of the universe and created his own planetary theory consisting of eleven rotating spheres. He published this theory in Novæ cœlestium orbium theoricæ congruentes cum observationibus N. Copernici (Venice, 1589). In the 1590s he published works on surveying and trigonometry, as well as invented a calculator. In 1596, he published a commentary of Ptolemy’s Geographia, which was published in several editions and languages. He labored for years on an atlas of Italy, which was printed posthumously in 1620. To pay for this project, Magini served as the math tutor to the son of the Duke of Mantua, as well as being the court astrologer to the Duke.

Place/Date:
Venice / 1596 (1713)
Size:
7 x 5.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
64828
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
83337
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
105254
Place/Date:
Venice / 1597
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
27603
Place/Date:
Venice / 1597
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
47363
Place/Date:
Venice / 1597
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
47490
Place/Date:
Venice / 1597
Size:
7 x 5.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
71264
Place/Date:
Venice / 1597
Size:
6.75 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
95656
Place/Date:
Venice / 1597 circa
Size:
7 x 5.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
101370
Place/Date:
Bologna / 1620 circa
Size:
18 x 13.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
47348
Place/Date:
Bologna / 1620
Size:
18.5 x 13.25 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
98515

Archived

Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
3886
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
18513
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
23394
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
0089em
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
26910
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
26927
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
26938
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
26951
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
26964
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
26976
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
26991
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
27005
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
27027
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
27041
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
27054
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
27071
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
27080
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
27098
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
27109
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
27132
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
27017
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
27789
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
27859
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
31014
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
31184
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 10 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
32608
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
35464gm
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
36139
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
38318
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
38383
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596 circa
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
40301mp2
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
42258
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596 circa
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
42585
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
42648
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
42700
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
42682
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596 (1713)
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
43757
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596 (1713)
Size:
7 x 5.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
45279
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596 (1713)
Size:
7 x 5.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
43630
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
47312
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
59526
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5 inches
Condition:
Good
Stock#:
66426
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
67845
Place/Date:
Venice / 1596
Size:
7 x 5.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
71506
Place/Date:
Venice / 1597
Size:
4.5 x 4.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
0337
Place/Date:
Venice / 1597
Size:
7 x 5.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
10664
Place/Date:
Venice / 1597
Size:
7 x 5.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
10665
Place/Date:
Venice / 1597
Size:
7 x 5.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
10666
Place/Date:
Venice / 1597
Size:
7 x 5.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
10667
Place/Date:
Venice / 1597
Size:
7 x 5.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
10668