notesImprint derived from colophon, which is in the form of a poem dedicated to Andrea Gritti. The poem includes a reference to an astronomical event in which five planets line up in Pisces, which occurred in February of 1524. The date has been misread as 1500, and by F.R. Goff in Gb Jb 1970 p.162 as 1525 (Oxford, Corpus Christi College catalogue)
On Zacutus and his work, see J. Chabás and B.R. Goldstein, Astronomy in the Iberian peninsula: Abraham Zacut and the transition from manuscript to print (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 90 (2), 2000)
notesImprint derived from colophon, which is in the form of a poem dedicated to Andrea Gritti. The poem includes a reference to an astronomical event in which five planets line up in Pisces, which occurred in February of 1524. The date has been misread as 1500, and by F.R. Goff in Gb Jb 1970 p.162 as 1525 (Oxford, Corpus Christi College catalogue)
On Zacutus and his work, see J. Chabás and B.R. Goldstein, Astronomy in the Iberian peninsula: Abraham Zacut and the transition from manuscript to print (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 90 (2), 2000)
